The independent movement of children is inevitably rendered as ‘trafficking’ due to core assumptions regarding what constitutes a proper childhood. Any deviation from these norms is held suspect.
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.
It is too simple to frame children involved in child prostitution in India and ‘sex trafficking’ in Canada as mere victims. Their roles in these phenomena are far more complex.
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
