Contemporary Slavery

Researching Child Domestic Servitude

C. Nana Derby (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

166 Seiten

2009
University Press of America (Verlag)
978-0-7618-4512-6 (ISBN)

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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. The findings show that elite households in Ghana exploit children from rural regions. This is because they have taken advantage of a historical practice that allowed children to live with older members of their extended families and provide domestic services. In return, they are to be given the chance to receive formal education or to learn a trade. The author's research techniques helped overcome the usual methodical difficulties that exclude child domestic servants from mainstream research on child labor exploitation. The author's approach allowed observation of the servants, not as isolated individuals, but as members of groups whose activities influenced their status and life chances. Most of the participants in this research provided vivid and chilling accounts of domestic servitude in Ghana. The book provides a glimpse of the contemporary slavery that is present in Ghana today.

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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.6.2009
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 231 mm
Gewicht	263 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7618-4512-7 / 0761845127
ISBN-13	978-0-7618-4512-6 / 9780761845126
Zustand	Neuware