Child Slavery Now: A Contemporary Reader

Author/Editor: Gary Craig

Format: Hardcover , 360 pages

Publisher: Policy Press (October 10, 2010)

The issue of modern child slavery is plagued with self-aggrandisement, shoddy research, and sensationalism. Child slavery now is a powerful antidote to this trend. Gary Craig brings together real experts and deep thinkers to carry our understanding of this crime far beyond sad stories and emotional appeals. This book is an intellectual toolbox for liberation. If you are a serious abolitionist you need this book.

– Dr Kevin Bales,

Pres. / Co-Founder, Free the Slaves

This wide-ranging book argues convincingly for a systematic approach to ending child slavery. It is a major contribution to the academic understanding of child slavery worldwide necessary for ending slavery in all its contemporary facets.

– Christien van den Anker,

Reader in Politics, University of the West of England, Bristol

About This Book

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.

Author Biography

Gary Craig is Emeritus Professor of Social Justice and Associate Fellow at the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation, Hull, where he has led the team researching modern slavery. He is also Professor of Community Development and Social Justice at the University of Durham, and Honorary Ambassador for the International Association for Community Development. His research interestsfocus on ‘race’ and ethnicity, modern slavery, local governance and community development.

Contents

• Introduction: Child slavery worldwide – Gary Craig
• Part one: Strategic overviews: Child slavery today – Joost Kooijmans and Hans van de Glind
• Constructing the international legal framework – Trevor Buck and Andrea Nicholson
• Just out of reach: the challenges of ending the worst forms of child labour – Catherine Turner, Aidan McQuade and Enrique Restoy
• Child domestic labour: a global concern – Jonathan Blagbrough
• Child trafficking: a modern form of slavery – Hans van de Glind
• Clarity and consistency in understanding child exploitation: a UK perspective – Aarti Kapoor
• A human rights approach to preventing child sex trafficking – Jonathan Todres
• Child rights, culture and exploitation: UK experiences of child trafficking – Farrah Bokhari and Emma Kelly
• Part two: Themes, issues and case studies: Preventing child trafficking in India: the role of education – Jason Aliperti and Patricia Aliperti
• Birth registration: a tool for prevention, protection and prosecution – Claire Cody
• ‘Bienvenue chez les grands!’: young migrant cigarette vendors in Marseille – Brenda Oude Breuil
• Child domestic labour: fostering in transition? – Evelyn Omoike
• Extreme forms of child labour in Turkey – Serdar M. Degirmencioglu, Hakan Acar and Yüksel Baykara Acar
• Haliya and Kamaiya bonded child labourers in Nepal – Birendra Raj Giri
• Sex trafficking in Nepal – Padam Simkhada
• The role of the arts in resisting recruitment as child soldiers and ‘wives’:experience from Uganda and Nepal – Bill Brookman and Katherine Darton
• International adoption and child trafficking in Ecuador – Esben Leifsen
• Child slavery in South and South East Asia – Cecilia Flores Oebanda
• Routes to child slavery in Central America – Virginia Murillo-Herrera
• Resources
• Afterword: The end of child slavery? – Kevin Bales
• Index.