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International Child Protection

Towards Politics and Participation

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Editors:
  1. Neil Howard

    1. Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, Bath, UK

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  2. Samuel Okyere

    1. School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

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  • Interrogates the international child protection regime, with a particular focus on its weaknesses and failures
  • Looks at the lack of accountability, the normativity, and the tendency to recreate patterns
  • Assesses why the regime falls short of its ideals and offers ideas for what can be done to improve

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development (PSCD)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: International Child Protection and Its Discontents

    • Samuel Okyere
    Pages 1-27

  3. Moral Economies and Child Labour in Artisanal Gold Mining in Ghana

    • Samuel Okyere
    Pages 29-55

  4. Intergenerational Activism as an Alternative to Child Saving: The Example of the Peruvian Movement of Working Children

    • Jessica K. Taft
    Pages 57-75

  5. Illusions in the Protection of Working Children

    • Michael Bourdillon, William Myers
    Pages 77-100

  6. Children Born of Wartime Captivity and Abuse: Politics and Practices of Integration in Northern Uganda

    • Allen Kiconco
    Pages 101-119

  7. Protection Versus Reintegration of Child Soldiers: Assistance Trade-Offs Within the Child Protection Regime

    • Jaremey R. McMullin
    Pages 121-145

  8. Children’s Rights and Child Prostitution: Critical Reflections on Thailand in the 1990s and Beyond

    • Heather Montgomery
    Pages 147-165

  9. Why Child Mobility Is Not Always Child Trafficking: The Moral Economy of Children’s Movement in Benin and Ethiopia

    • Jo Boyden, Neil Howard
    Pages 167-187

  10. Child Protection in Palestine and Jordan: From Rights to Principles?

    • Jason Hart
    Pages 189-212

  11. Conclusion: Towards Politics and Participation

    • Neil Howard
    Pages 213-223

  12. Postscript: What Is Wrong with International Child Protection and What Changes Are Needed?

    • Jo Boyden
    Pages 225-240

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 241-261
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About this book

This book interrogates the international child protection regime, with a particular focus on its weaknesses and failures. It looks at the lack of accountability, the normativity, and the tendency to recreate patterns of power and exclusion that blight otherwise good intentions. The book assesses why the regime falls short of its ideals and offers ideas for what can be done to improve it. Bringing together influential, established voices, and emerging scholars who work on issues related to childhood, youth, policy, and practice, the book offers a timely intervention that aims to push the world of international child protection in more progressive directions.   



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The book offers a timely and engaged perspective on present-day challenges in the field of children’s rights studies. Based on a carefully documented assessment of the international child protection regime, the authors propose thought-provoking new avenues for countering prevalent protectionist perspectives. The well substantiated empirical case studies and thorough reflections examine alternatives that are respectful of the views of the concerned children and communities in crafting policy solutions to violations of children’s fundamental rights. The variety of themes and the broad geographical scope make this book an excellent resource for anyone who wants to engage with children’s rights in a critical and constructive way. 
Karl Hanson, Director of the Centre for Children’s Rights Studies, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, Bath, UK

    Neil Howard

  • School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

    Samuel Okyere

About the editors

Neil Howard is Lecturer at the University of Bath, UK.

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


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