From Child Labor "Problem" to Human Trafficking "Crisis": Child Advocacy and Anti-Trafficking Legislation in Ghana
In: International labor and working class history: ILWCH, Band 78, Heft 1, S. 63-89
ISSN: 0147-5479
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In: International labor and working class history: ILWCH, Band 78, Heft 1, S. 63-89
ISSN: 0147-5479
In: International labor and working class history: ILWCH, Band 78, S. 63-88
ISSN: 1471-6445
In: INTERMEDIARIES, INTERPRETERS AND CLERKS: AFRICAN EMPLOYEES AND THE MAKING OF COLONIAL AFRICA, pp. 94-114, Benjamin N. Lawrance, Emily L. Osborn, Richard L. Roberts, eds., University of Wisconsin Press, 2006
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In: Journal of African History, Band 46, S. 243-67
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In: African Economic History, Band 31, S. 135-181
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In: African economic history, Heft 31, S. 135
ISSN: 2163-9108
In: Cahiers d'Études Africaines, Band XL, Heft 159, S. 489-524
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Citizenship is often assumed to be a clear-cut issue - either one has it or one does not. However, as the contributors to Citizenship in Question demonstrate, citizenship is not self-evident; it emerges from often obscure written records and is interpreted through ambiguous and dynamic laws. In case studies that analyze the legal barriers to citizenship rights in over twenty countries, the contributors explore how states use evidentiary requirements to create and police citizenship, often based on fictions of racial, ethnic, class, and religious differences. Whether examining the United States' deportation of its own citizens, the selective use of DNA tests and secret results in Thailand, or laws that have stripped entire populations of citizenship, the contributors emphasize the political, psychological, and personal impact of citizenship policies.
"In this book, legal, biomedical, psychosocial, and social science scholars and practitioners offer the first comparative account of the increasing dependence on expertise in the asylum and refugee status determination process. This volume presents a comprehensive study of the relevance of experts, as mediators of culture, who are called upon to corroborate, substantiate credibility, and serve as translators in the face of confusing legal standards that require proof of new forms and reasons for persecution around the globe. The authors provide insights into the evidentiary burdens on asylum seekers and the expanding role of expertise in the forms of country-conditions reports, biomedical and psychiatric evaluations, and the emerging field of forensic linguistic analysis in response to emerging forms of persecution, such as gender-based or sexuality-based persecution"--
In: Benjamin N. Lawrance and Richard L. Roberts (eds.), Trafficking in Slavery's Wake: Law and the Experiences of Women and Children in Africa (Athens: Ohio University Press), pp.1-25, 2012
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In: Anthropological quarterly: AQ, Band 76, Heft 2, S. 361-368
ISSN: 1534-1518
In: New African histories series
In: New African histories
Women and children have been bartered, pawned, bought, and sold within and beyond Africa for longer than records have existed. This important collection examines the ways trafficking in women and children has changed from the aftermath of the "end of slavery" in Africa from the late nineteenth century to the present. The formal abolition of the slave trade and slavery did not end the demand for servile women and children. Contemporary forms of human trafficking are deeply interwoven with their historical precursors, and scholars and activists need to be informed about the long history of trafficking in order to better assess and confront its contemporary forms. This book brings together the perspectives of leading scholars, activists, and other experts, creating a conversation that is essential for understanding the complexity of human trafficking in Africa. Human trafficking is rapidly emerging as a core human rights issue for the twenty-first century. Trafficking in Slavery's Wake is excellent reading for the researching, combating, and prosecuting of trafficking in women and children.
In: Seattle Journal of Social Justice, Band 9, Heft 2
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In: INTERMEDIARIES, INTERPRETERS AND CLERKS: AFRICAN EMPLOYEES AND THE MAKING OF COLONIAL AFRICA, pp. 3-34, Benjamin N. Lawrance, Emily L. Osborn, Richard L. Roberts, eds., University of Wisconsin Press, 2006
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