(Presentation) Decolonising childhood, rethinking emancipation: a critical assessment of anti-trafficking rhetoric and interventions

By Samuel Okyere Tuesday 12 October 16:30 until 18:00 | Department of International Development | University of Sussex This presentation critically interrogates the discourses and practices spawned by actors seeking to address child trafficking and worst forms of child labour in the Global South. It focuses primarily on the rhetoric and strategies of the NGO …

Decolonising Trafficking and Modern Slavery

British Academy Writing Workshop, University of Cape Coast, 15-18 September 2021  MMPPF team members Sam Okyere, Angelo Martins Junior, and Julia O’Connell Davidson co-convened this British Academy Writing Workshop with Emmanuel Saboro (University of Cape Coast, Ghana) and Gabriel de Santis Feltran (UFSCar - Federal University of São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil). It was designed to address …

Are child domestic workers “modern-day slaves”?

By Peter Olayiwola How do children become domestic workers? Mainstream literature would have us believe that they are driven by poverty coupled with the desperation of their parents, and/or their ignorance, as well as malevolence of ‘traffickers’ and/or employers. For example, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) among others, have argued that children may be involved …

(CfP) British Academy Writing Workshop: Decolonising Trafficking and Modern Slavery

15-18 September 2021, University of Cape Coast, Ghana Conveners: Emmanuel Saboro (University of Cape Coast, Ghana); Samuel Okyere, Angelo Martins Junior, and Julia O’Connell Davidson (University of Bristol, UK); Gabriel de Santis Feltran (UFSCar - Federal University of São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil) This workshop is open only to early career scholars based in Ghana and …

Cortando o fio da vida? Escravidão, criminalização, cidadania e mobilidade

Por Julia O'Connell Davidson English Version Here Source: "Banished from Eden" by daliborlev Nosso projeto, Modern Marronage? A busca e a prática da liberdade, preocupa-se com a "liberdade", um conceito elusivo. Embora amplamente representado nas sociedades liberais como a ausência de certos controles e restrições (uma visão reproduzida em campanhas contemporâneas contra a chamada "escravidão moderna"), imaginar …

Scissoring the Thread of Life? Slavery, criminalisation, citizenship and mobility

By Julia O’Connell DavidsonPortuguês Version Here Source: "Banished from Eden" by daliborlev Our project, Modern Marronage? The Pursuit and Practice of Freedom, is concerned with “freedom”, an elusive concept. Though widely represented in liberal societies as the absence of certain controls and restraints (a vision reproduced in contemporary campaigns against so-called “modern slavery”), to imagine “freedom” as …

The politics of rights, representation and freedom: how CNN reported on Ghanaian ‘child slaves’ who were not enslaved

By Samuel Okyere, Kwame Agyemang , Betty Mensah On March 1 2019, CNN aired a video titled, Freeing the child slaves of Lake Volta, which followed a succession of similar docufictions and media reportage elsewhere alleging that many “thousands of children are sold into slavery” and trafficking in fishing communities along the Lake Volta in Ghana. Our (two academics who have studied this issue and a Member of Parliament …