Overview
- Creates an overview of over a century of legal developments to address child trafficking
- Highlights the Euro-centric nature of international law and the entanglements of colonialism
- Seeks to critique the entanglements of children’s rights and colonialism
Part of the book series: Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security (TCCCS)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
The phenomenon of child trafficking holds a unique position as an issue of significant contemporary relevance, occupying a principal place in debates about human rights today. The interchangeable terms trafficking and modern slavery evoke emotive responses and proclamations about abolition of contemporary ills, viewed as the ultimate aberration when a child is involved. The classification of children under legal frameworks marks them as different, as ‘other’, and in the context of laws implemented to address trafficking, slavery, and children on the move more generally, this distinction is complicated.
This book charts the emergence, decline and re-emergence of child trafficking law and policy during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of the historical origins of child trafficking by utilising the wealth of information located within the non-digitised archives of the League of Nations. It focusses upon the Committee onthe Traffic in Women and Children to engage with League of Nations policy to provide an insightful and original contribution to the current body of literature. This is a book that seeks to critique the entanglements of children’s rights and colonialism in relation to the mobility and exploitation of children. It centralises the legacy of colonialism, the undercurrents of race, white supremacy, patriarchy, and their ongoing influence upon contemporary anti-trafficking legal and policy responses. Through utilizing what the author identifies as the ‘anti-trafficking machine’ as a theoretical framework, the book challenges contemporary law and policy responses to child trafficking. This theoretical framework has been adopted to illustrate a central hypothesis of the book – that the contemporary anti-trafficking agenda is both imperialist and a continuity of colonial attitudes.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Elizabeth A. Faulkner is Lecturer in Law at Keele University, United Kingdom. Her interests, broadly conceived, are in international child law, human rights, migration, legal history, and crime specialising in human trafficking, slavery, children’s rights, exploitation, and abuse.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Trafficking of Children
Book Subtitle: International Law, Modern Slavery, and the Anti-Trafficking Machine
Authors: Elizabeth A. Faulkner
Series Title: Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23566-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23565-8Published: 11 April 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23568-9Due: 12 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-23566-5Published: 10 April 2023
Series ISSN: 2947-4264
Series E-ISSN: 2947-4272
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 354
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Trafficking, Human Rights and Crime , Human Rights, Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Organized Crime