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- Offers a comprehensive picture of the anti-trafficking field
- Draws on data from fieldwork with Beninese male adolescent labour migrants defined as 'trafficked'
- Identifies three hegemonic principles as key to the restriction of anti-trafficking discourse and policy
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development (PSCD)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book provides the first overarching, empirically grounded, critical analysis of child trafficking as an idea, ordering principle, and artefact of politics. It examines (once) hegemonic anti-child trafficking discourse, policy and practice, and does so by placing secondary literature from around the world in conversation the author’s paradigmatic case study of the situation in southern Benin. It deconstructs the child trafficking paradigm, contrasts it with ‘real’ histories of child and youth labour and mobility, and seeks to explain it by going ‘inside’ the anti-trafficking field. In doing so, Howard tells a gripping story of ideology at work.
Keywords
- Post-structuralist discourse theory
- Political anthropology
- Development ethnography
- Ideology
- Western Childhood ideology
- Neoliberalism
- 'Ideal State' ideology
- Anti-trafficking discourse
- Anti-trafficking policy
- UN Convention on the Rights of the Chld
- United Nations
- ILO
- Palermo Protocol
- Kidnapping
- Enslavement
- Benin
- childhood studies
Authors and Affiliations
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Institute of Development Policy and Management, European University Institute in Florence, Italy
Neil Howard
About the author
Neil Howard is Marie Curie Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. His research combines political economy and political anthropology to examine the political, economic and ideological construction of human trafficking and forced labour, and to analyse how, why and whether policy-makers are active in this construction. He has worked with and advised both the ILO and ITUC, and is a Founder-Editor at openDemocracy’s ‘Beyond Trafficking and Slavery.’
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Child Trafficking, Youth Labour Mobility and the Politics of Protection
Authors: Neil Howard
Series Title: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47818-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-47817-7Published: 20 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-69339-9Published: 13 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-47818-4Published: 01 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2947-5724
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5732
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 178
Number of Illustrations: 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Policy, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Terrorism and Political Violence, Labour Law/Social Law, Development Studies