C. Nana Derby

Contemporary Slavery

Researching Child Domestic Servitude

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 251g
• ISBN-13: 9780761845126
• ISBN-10: 0761845127
• Artikelnr.: 25856149

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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