Moving children? Child trafficking, child migration, and child rights

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dc.contributor.authorO'Connell Davidson, J.
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-19T14:32:22Z
dc.date.available2017-04-19T14:32:22Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractThis article aims to contribute to the growing body of scholarly work that critically deconstructs dominant discourse on ‘trafficking’ and to the literature that documents and theorizes the gap between states’ spoken commitment to children’s rights and the lived experience of migrant children in the contemporary world. It contrasts the intense public and policy concern with the suffering of ‘trafficked’ children against the relative lack of interest in other ways that migrant children can suffer, in particular, suffering resulting from immigration policy and its enforcement. It argues that discourse on ‘child trafficking’ operates to produce and maintain exclusionary conceptions of who is normatively a child. These conceptions of the normative child then inform policy and practice that often punishes, rather than protects, children who do not conform to the imagined norm, and that simultaneously reinforces children’s existing vulnerabilities and creates new ones. (Author Abstract)en_US
dc.identifier.citationO'Connell Davidson, J. (2011). Moving children? Child trafficking, child migration, and child rights. Critical social policy, 31(3), 454-477.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.867.4182&rep=rep1&type=pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/3324
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCritical social policyen_US
dc.subjectchild abuseen_US
dc.subjectCSECen_US
dc.subjectpolicyen_US
dc.subjectInternational Resourcesen_US
dc.subjectEnglanden_US
dc.titleMoving children? Child trafficking, child migration, and child rightsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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