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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe (anti-)politics of ‘child protection’
Child protection services in war zones are inadequate because they do not challenge the sources of violence. To...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryYoung people's migration and the pursuit of status
Young people’s mobility must be understood within processes of change. Migration provides opportunities to achieve...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe cognitive dissonance between child rescue and child protection
‘Saving orphans’ has become an industry that irrevocably harms children and undermines the development of child...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryPathologising young people’s movement
The independent movement of children is inevitably rendered as ‘trafficking’ due to core assumptions regarding what...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryChild rights in the chocolate industry: a rocky road to progress
This piece examines media coverage of child exploitation in the cocoa industry, arguing that lasting change in this...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryChild work, schooling and mobility
Conventional wisdom holds that child labour and education are mutually exclusive, yet many children work and migrate...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryChildren in global sex work and trafficking discourses
It is too simple to frame children involved in child prostitution in India and ‘sex trafficking’ in Canada as mere...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryProhibiting children from working is a bad idea
Child labour is not intrinsically exploitative, and its prohibition is based more in western conceptions of...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryChildren, capitalism and slavery
Romanticism saw child workers as slaves and pushed to remove children from the labour market. While some working...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryChild trafficking: ‘worst form’ of child labour, or worst approach to young migrants?
Child trafficking is often used synonymously with child labour migration. This framing does a disservice to many...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryAre we really saving the children?
BTS editors introduce their issue on 'generations' by arguing that contemporary child savers often damage the...