Work socialisation gone wrong? Exploring the antecedent of child trafficking in two Ghanaian fishing communities

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Bernard Koomson ◽  
Esmeranda Manful ◽  
Eric Henry Yeboah ◽  
Jonathan Mensah Dapaah
Keyword(s):  
Fishing Communities ◽  
Child Trafficking

scholarly journals Putting Childhood in Its Place: Rethinking popular discourses on the conceptualisation of child trafficking in Ghana

2021 ◽  
pp. 28-46
Author(s):  
Bernard Koomson ◽  
Dawuda Abdulai
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Fishing Communities ◽  
Fishing Community ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Child Trafficking

Popular discourses on child trafficking are generally characterised by unverifiable statistics, melodramatic representations, and emotional reactions. More so, notions of poverty, exploitation, and the protection of children from harm have driven educational and sensitisation campaigns that seek to address trafficking in children. The ensuing status quo blurs diverse cultural conceptions of childhood and its moral representations of acceptable and unacceptable labour. Drawing on qualitative data from a Ghanaian fishing community, this paper reviews the impoverished and hazardous representation of children’s transportation to other fishing communities for work. It contends that the prevailing conceptualisation of child trafficking fails to account for the socio-cultural underpinnings of children’s movement to other fishing communities for work. Consequently, this paper argues that it is important to situate popular discourses of child trafficking within fishing community’s conceptualisation of childhood in order to provide a comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon within those communities.

Child Trafficking as a Profitable Crime in Ethiopia

2018 ◽  
Vol 06 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Megento TL ◽  
Wolde YT
Keyword(s):  
Child Trafficking

scholarly journals ‘We shall drink until Lake Victoria dries up’: Drivers of heavy drinking and illicit drug use among young Ugandans in fishing communities

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Monica O. Kuteesa ◽  
Emily L. Webb ◽  
Racheal Kawuma ◽  
Josephine Naluwugge ◽  
Kiwanuka Thadeus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Illicit Drug ◽  
Lake Victoria ◽  
Heavy Drinking ◽  
Illicit Drug Use ◽  
Fishing Communities
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