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.

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