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Taye, Fasil Nigussie; Huijsmans, Roy – Global Studies of Childhood, 2020
In this article, we bring to the foreground an understudied dimension of working children's lives in the Global South: their access to money and the consumption this facilitates. Drawing on life history interviews, we show that among the Gamo weavers of Ethiopia, the modern phenomenon of a monetised childhood is at least six decades old and an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Labor, Personal Narratives, Apprenticeships
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Huijsmans, Roy – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2008
Globally, migration statistics indicate rising numbers of people who have for various reasons left their local community. Of these, a considerable proportion is below the age of 18 and often engaged in some kind of work. Yet, the phenomenon of children working beyond their localities receives little special attention in migration studies or child…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migration, Immigrants, Laotians