Organizaciones de la sociedad civil que representan a personas con ascendente africano en Europa y América reclaman al Reino Unido que asuma plena responsabilidad por su participación en el comercio transatlántico de esclavos. English. Portugués.
Conventional wisdom holds that child labour and education are mutually exclusive, yet many children work and migrate in order to attend school. English
This piece examines media coverage of child exploitation in the cocoa industry, arguing that lasting change in this area will only come from a holistic and evidence-based approach in policymaking.
Civil society organisations in Europe and the Americas representing people of African descent call on Britain to take full responsibility for its historical involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. Español, Português
Child labour is not intrinsically exploitative, and its prohibition is based more in western conceptions of childhood than research. Laws should prevent the exploitation of children, not children’s work outright. English
Romanticism saw child workers as slaves and pushed to remove children from the labour market. While some working children agreed, others welcomed the chance to contribute to the family budget.
BTS editors introduce their issue on 'generations' by arguing that contemporary child savers often damage the children they seek to save because they operate under severely flawed assumptions.
Child trafficking is often used synonymously with child labour migration. This framing does a disservice to many child migrants, who change place for many reasons, and new thinking is necessary. Español
Asylum seekers, refugees and poor EU citizens are vulnerable to labour exploitation in EU member states. Sicily’s agricultural sector illuminates how structural gaps and individual needs exacerbate that vulnerability.
Discussions of migration are becoming increasingly dystopian. Based upon either exclusion or exploitation, new neoliberal arguments for open borders are not about freedom, but institutionalised domination.
European colonisers maintained their workforce with forced labour after slavery was abolished, claiming work would do Africans good. This opened up new dangers to an already vulnerable population.
While current neoliberal privatisation laws provide for protections to indigenous lands, no formal or informal mechanisms exist for natives to actually enjoy such safeguards.
