School attendance and attitude to child labour: a comparison of in-school and out-of-school working children in southwest Nigeria

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-67
Author(s):  
Folashade O. Omokhodion
Keyword(s):  
School Attendance ◽  
Child Labour ◽  
Working Children ◽  
Southwest Nigeria ◽  
Out Of School

scholarly journals Liminality and Child Labour: Experiences of School Aged Working Children with Implications for Community Education in Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Okechukwu Stephen Chukwudeh ◽  
Akpovire Oduaran
Keyword(s):  
Peer Influence ◽  
Community Education ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Child Labour ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Informal Market ◽  
Working Children ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Southwest Nigeria

Background: Liminality brings confusion among children as they cannot progress to the next stage of life, neither could they regress to their previous state of events. The situation is precarious for socioeconomic deprived children in Africa as it cast aspersion on their career, health and well-being. The study, therefore, examines the experiences’ of children who were supposed to be in school but were observed working at the informal market space in Africa. Methods: Qualitative data was collected through referral and non-discriminative snowballing. Fourty-eight participants (48-KII 2, IDI 10, FGD 6–6 person per group, total 36) from Aleshinloye and Bodija markets in Southwest Nigeria were included in the study. Results: Parental poverty, poor education facilities, peer influence, and the frequent strike by education institutions (pre-tertiary and tertiary) were implicated for the prevalence of child labour in the informal market space in Southwest Nigeria. Conclusions: The negative consequences of the liminality stage far outweigh the positive. Therefore, there is a need for conscientious efforts by community leaders, parents, and relevant stakeholders in the society to eradicate snags within the liminality of children’s education in order to curb child labour. This is necessary to achieve the sustainable development goals by 2030.

scholarly journals Representation as power and performative practice: Global civil society advocacy for working children

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNA HOLZSCHEITER
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Global Civil Society ◽  
Child Labour ◽  
Working Children

AbstractThis article analyses global civil society advocacy in the field of child labour through the lens of theories on political representation in global governance. The article is sympathetic to newer theories on political representation which, fundamentally, understand representation as a dialectic of performative practices between representatives and their real or imagined constituencies. However, the article argues that the contemporary literature on political representation turns a blind eye on two aspects that are central to understanding this dialectic of representation in the child labour case: first, representation as power and second, the contested nature of citizenship. The article thus proposes an approach to political representation that allows highlighting the power-dimension inherent to the interrelation between formal and performative aspects of representation, that is, between civil society actors’ power to represent and their power over representation. Using such an approach, the article presents empirical insights on CSO representation in global policymaking on child labour – a field in which conflicts over legitimate representation, citizenship, and grassroots participation continue to be exceptionally fierce.

A brief statistical sketch of the child labour market in mid-nineteenth-century London

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER KIRBY
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Child Labour ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Working Children ◽  
Low Levels

The profusion of small trades and services that characterized the nineteenth-century London labour market makes it extremely difficult to arrive at any general understanding of the work of children and juveniles. This brief study employs published statistical materials and compares children's occupations in the metropolis with the national picture. It argues that London contained exceptionally low levels of children's employment compared with the rest of England and Wales. The preoccupation of metropolitan social observers with working children may have resulted from the fact that child employment in mid-nineteenth-century London was a marginal activity associated chiefly with the very poor.

Child labour or school attendance? Evidence from Zambia

1997 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Jensen ◽  
Helena Skyt Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
School Attendance ◽  
Child Labour

scholarly journals Mapping out-of-school adolescents and youths in low- and middle-income countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
V. A. Alegana ◽  
C. Pezzulo ◽  
A. J. Tatem ◽  
B. Omar ◽  
A. Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
School Attendance ◽  
School Age ◽  
Fine Scale ◽  
Attendance Rates ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Out Of School

AbstractEducation is a human right and a driver of development, but, is still not accessible for a vast number of adolescents and school-age-youths. Out-of-school adolescents and youth rates (SDG 4.3.1) in lower and middle-income countries have been at a virtual halt for almost a decade. Thus, there is an increasing need to understand geographic variation on accessibility and school attendance to aid in reducing inequalities in education. Here, the aim was to estimate physical accessibility and secondary school non-attendance amongst adolescents and school-age youths in Tanzania, Cambodia, and the Dominican Republic. Community cluster survey data were triangulated with the spatial location of secondary schools, non-proprietary geospatial data and fine-scale population maps to estimate accessibility to all levels of secondary school education and the number of out-of-school. School attendance rates for the three countries were derived from nationally representative household survey data, and a Bayesian model-based geostatistical framework was used to estimate school attendance at high resolution. Results show a sub-national variation in accessibility and secondary school attendance rates for the three countries considered. Attendance was associated with distance to the nearest school (R2 > 70%). These findings suggest increasing the number of secondary schools could reduce the long-distance commuted to school in low-income and middle-income countries. Future work could extend these findings to fine-scale optimisation models for school location, intervention planning, and understanding barriers associated with secondary school non-attendance at the household level.

Understanding abusive child labor practices in the shadow of the Arab spring

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saeb F. Al Ganideh ◽  
Linda K Good
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
Child Labour ◽  
Refugee Children ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Refugee Child ◽  
Working Children ◽  
Labor Practices ◽  
Syrian Civil War

Purpose – The Syrian civil war that forced hundreds of thousands of Syrian women and children into Jordan as refugees dramatically increased the number of child labourers in that country. The current investigation aims to establish a body of knowledge on the issues surrounding child labour in Jordan by providing an exploratory diagnosis of the phenomenon. The purpose of this paper is to explore verbal and physical abusive practices towards working children and investigate whether there are differences between the treatment of domestic and Syrian refugee child labourers. Design/methodology/approach – The research design is quantitative; however, we use a qualitative technique to support and expand the research findings. Data were collected from 124 Jordanian and Syrian working children over a seven-month period in 2013. Findings – The results reveal that it is poverty that forces Jordanian children into work while Syrian children are driven by the need for asylum. Of the abusive practices directed towards working children, verbal abuse is the most common. Older children, children from unstable families and those who work long hours are more vulnerable to this form of abuse, while children from unstable family structures and who work long hours are more likely to experience physically abuse. The results reveal that Syrian children are paid much less, are less verbally abused, had better schooling and perceive working conditions more positively than do their Jordanian counterparts. Research limitations/implications – Limitations of this research arise from the size the sample. Social implications – The current study aims to raise awareness about the importance of preventing abusive practices towards local and refugee children working in Jordan. Originality/value – To the best of the authors’ knowledge, very little is known about refugee child labour and how it might differ from domestic child labour.

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