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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 statusYoung 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 movementThe 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 progressThis 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 mobilityConventional 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 discoursesIt 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 ideaChild 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 slaveryRomanticism 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...
