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Child slavery now: A contemporary reader

Gary Craig

Abstract

Most slave trades were abolished during the nineteenth century, yet there remain millions of people in slavery today, amongst them approximately 210 million children in slavery, trafficked, debt bondage, and other forms of forced labour. This book, drawing on experience worldwide, focuses on child slavery and shows how children remain locked in slavery, the ways in which they are exploited, and how they can be emancipated. It examines child labour, child trafficking, and child exploitation in various countries such as Nepal, Turkey, Uganda, South and Southeast Asia, India, Central America, and ... More

Keywords: slave trades, child trafficking, debt bondage, child labour, child exploitation, child emancipation, child slavery, Nepal, Central America, India

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2010 Print ISBN-13: 9781847426109
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012 DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781847426109.001.0001

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Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Gary Craig, editor

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Acknowledgments and dedication

Notes on contributors

List of abbreviations

List of boxes, figures, tables and photos

Introduction: Child slavery worldwide

Gary Craig

Part I Strategic overviews

one Child slavery today

Joost Kooijmans, and Hans van de Glind

two Constructing the international legal framework

Buck Trevor, and Nicholson Andrea

three Just out of reach: the challenges of ending the worst forms of child labour

Turner Catherine, McQuade Aidan, and Restoy Enrique

four Child domestic labour: a global concern

Blagbrough Jonathan

five Child trafficking: a modern form of slavery1

de Glind Hans van

six Clarity and consistency in understanding child exploitation: a UK perspective

Kapoor Aarti

seven A human rights approach to preventing child sex trafficking1

Todres Jonathan

eight Child rights, culture and exploitation: UK experiences of child trafficking

Bokhari Farhat, and Kelly Emma

Part II Themes, issues and case studies

nine Preventing child trafficking in India: the role of education

Aliperti Jason, and Aliperti Patricia

ten Birth registration: a tool for prevention, protection and prosecution

Cody Clarie

eleven ‘Bienvenue chez les grands!’: young migrant cigarette vendors in Marseille

Brenda Oude Breuil

twelve Child domestic labour: fostering in transition?

Evelyn Omoike

thirteen Extreme forms of child labour in Turkey

Serdar M. Degirmencioglu, Hakan Acar, and Yüksel Baykara Acar

fourteen Haliya and kamaiya bonded child labourers in Nepal

Birendra Raj Giri

fifteen Sex trafficking in Nepal

Padam Simkhada

sixteen The role of the arts in resisting recruitment as child soldiers and ‘wives’: experience from Uganda and Nepal

Bill Brookeman, and Katherine Darton

seventeen International adoption and child trafficking in Ecuador

Esben Leifsen

eighteen Child slavery in South and South East Asia

Cecilia Flores Oebanda

nineteen Routes to child slavery in Central America

Virginia Murillo Herrera

Resources

Gary Craig

Afterword The end of child slavery?

Bales Kevin

End Matter

Index