‘Shock and awe’: a critique of the Ghana-centric child trafficking discourse

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‘Shock and awe’: a critique of the Ghana-centric child trafficking discourse

This paper is a critique of the dominant anti-trafficking discourse and activism in Ghana. The paper argues that the discourse grossly underplays the role played by external forces in shaping the conditions underpinning children’s labour mobility in the past and the hardships underpinning the phenom...

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Main Author:	Okyere, Samuel
Format:	Article
Published:	Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women 2017
Subjects:	child trafficking anti-trafficking Ghana history Volta lake political Africa fishing
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45686/

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