Contemporary Slavery - Researching Child Domestic Servitude

Informationen zum Autor C. Nana Derby, Ph.D., is assistant professor of criminal justice at Virginia State University. Her research revolves around contemporary slavery, feminist criminology, and crimes of transnational migration. Klappentext This book investigates child domestic servitude in Ghana, showing the process of the children's recruitment into domestic servitude, revealing their working conditions, and detailing the methods of compensation. It seeks to answer the question of whether child domestic servants are contemporary slaves. Zusammenfassung This book investigates child domestic servitude in Ghana! showing the process of the children's recruitment into domestic servitude! revealing their working conditions! and detailing the methods of compensation. It seeks to answer the question of whether child domestic servants are contemporary slaves. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction and Need for Study Chapter 2 Children's Childhood, Rights, and Child Labor Exploitation Chapter 3 Research Methods Chapter 4 Processes of Recruitment and the Nature of Relationships Between Domestic Servants and their Employers Chapter 5 Culture of Ghana and Its Impact on Child Domestics Chapter 6 Child Domestic Servitude as a Househild Survival Strategy Chapter 7 Relationship Between Formal Education and the Incidence of Child Domestic Servitude Chapter 8 Child Domestic Servitude: the Question of Contemporary Slavery Chapter 9 Conclusions: Historical and Domestic and Economic Explanations of Contemporary Child Domestic Servitude

Product details

• Authors: C Nana Derby, C. Nana Derby, Derby C. Nana
• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.04.2009
• EAN: 9780761845126
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-4512-6
• No. of pages: 166
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Rural communities, Age groups: children, Ghana;Race and Ethnicity;Sociology