The trafficking of children: international law, modern slavery, and the anti-trafficking machine

In: Transnational crime, crime control and security

Abstract

"This book charts the emergence, decline, and re-emergence of child trafficking law and policy during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It provides an overview of the historical origins of child trafficking by utilising information located within the archives of the League of Nations. It focuses on the League of Nation's Committee on the Traffic in Women and Children. 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"--Adapted from the publisher's description.