International Child Protection

Neil Howard is Lecturer at the University of Bath, UK.Samuel Okyere is Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol, UK.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: International Child Protection and its Discontents.- Chapter 2: Moral Economies and Child Labour in Artisanal Gold Mining in Ghana.- Chapter 3: Intergenerational Activism as an Alternative to Child Saving: The Example of the Peruvian Movement of Working Children.- Chapter 4: Illusions in the Protection of Working Children.- Chapter 5: Children Born of Wartime Captivity and Abuse: Politics and Practices of Integration in Northern Uganda.- Chapter 6: Protection versus Reintegration of Child Soldiers: Assistance Trade-offs within the Child protection regime.- Chapter 7: Children’s Rights and Child Prostitution: Critical Reflections on Thailand in the 1990s and Beyond.- Chapter 8: Why Child Mobility is Not Always Child Trafficking: The Moral Economy of Children’s Movement in Benin and Ethiopia.- Chapter 9: Child Protection in Palestine and Jordan: From Rights to Principles?.- Chapter 10: Conclusion: Towards Politics and Participation.- Postscript: What is Wrong with International Child Protection and What Changes are Needed?.- Index.