Child slavery now

A contemporary reader

Craig, Gary

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN: 9781847429469
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Ciencias sociales
• Subtopic: Estudios infantiles en sociología

Most slave trades were abolished during the 19th century yet there remain millions of people in slavery today, amongst them approximately 210 million children in slavery, trafficked, in debt bondage and other forms of forced labour. This groundbreaking book, drawing on experience worldwide, shows how children remain locked in slavery, the ways in which they are exploited and how they can be emancipated. Written for policy and political actors, academics and activists, it reminds us also that all are implicated in modern childhood slavery - as consumers - and need both to understand its causes, and act to stop it.

Table of contents

• CHILD SLAVERY NOW
• Contents
• Acknowledgments and dedication
• Notes on contributors
• List of abbreviations
• List of boxes, figures, tables and photos
• Introduction
• one. Child slavery today
• two. Constructing the international legal framework
• three. Just out of reach
• four. Child domestic labour
• five. Child trafficking
• six. Clarity and consistency in understanding child exploitation
• seven. A human rights approach to preventing child sex trafficking
• eight. Child rights, culture and exploitation
• nine. Preventing child trafficking in India
• ten. Birth registration
• eleven. ‘Bienvenue chez les grands!''
• twelve Child domestic labour
• thirteen. Extreme forms of child labour in Turkey
• fourteen. Haliya and kamaiya bonded child labourers in Nepal
• fifteen. Sex trafficking in Nepal
• sixteen. The role of the arts in resisting recruitment as child soldiers and ‘wives’
• seventeen. International adoption and child trafficking in Ecuador
• eighteen. Child slavery in South and SouthEast Asia
• nineteen. Routes to child slavery in Central America
• Resources
• Afterword: The end of child slavery?
• Index