|
Advanced search
Previous page
|
Title
Why does child trafficking policy need to be reformed? The moral economy of children's movement in Benin and Ethiopia |
Full text
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14733285.2013.817661; http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cchg20 |
Date
2013 |
Author(s)
Boyden, Jo; Howard, Neil |
Abstract
This article challenges policy discourses that frame children's independent movement as intrinsically exploitative and threatening to their development. Drawing on research with children and adults in Benin and Ethiopia, two countries caught up in current efforts to eradicate child migration and the trafficking with which it has become associated, the article critiques assumptions about children's vulnerability and physical dependence and contests the idea that appropriate childhood is necessarily fixed spatially within stable family structures. It thus situates children's migration within socio-cultural and economic contexts and suggests that it should be understood as part of a moral economy that confounds simplistic paradigms that conflate migration with trafficking. Policy suggestions are offered for how best to secure children's well-being through acknowledgement of the important relationship between mobility and child maturation. - Copyright © 2013 Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Children's Geographies on 17/07/2013, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14733285.2013.817661 Published as: Boyden, Jo and Neil Howard (2013) 'Why does child trafficking policy need to be reformed? The moral economy of children's movement in Benin and Ethiopia', Children's Geographies 11(3): 354-368. DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2013.817661 The article is reproduced in accordance with the self-archiving policies of Taylor & Francis Group. |
Subject(s)
Migration; Children and youth; Intergenerational relationships; young lives; child independent migration; Benin; Ethiopia; trafficking |
Language
en |
Relation
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14733285.2013.817661; http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cchg20 |
Type of publication
text; Article: post-print; Published; Peer reviewed; Accepted Manuscript |
Format
Published |
Identifier
uuid:2778ca19-f4f5-4289-a34c-e5035a35b27c; doi: 10.1080/14733285.2013.817661; issn: 1473-3285; Oxford Research Archive internal ID: ora:10532; ora:10532; urn:uuid:2778ca19-f4f5-4289-a34c-e5035a35b27c |
Repository
Oxford - Research Archive, University of Oxford
|
Added to C-A: 2019-01-07;13:24:56 |
© Connecting-Africa 2004-2024 | Last update: Friday, March 8, 2024 |
Webmaster
|