TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Teenage labor migration and antitrafficking policy in West Africa
JO  - Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
A1  - Howard, Neil
SP  - 124
EP  - 140
VL  - 653
IS  - 1
N2  - Within the antitrafficking community, even legal child or youth work is often pathologized, seen as a "worst form of child labor" or, where movement is involved, as trafficking. Major policy responses thus focus on attempting to protect the young by preventing their movement or policing their work. Using a case study of adolescent labor migrants in Benin who work in artisanal gravel quarries in Nigeria, I provide evidence that suggests that the dominant discourse regarding this kind of labor is inaccurate and that policies based on it may be failing. This is in large part because the labor migration depicted as "trafficking" by the antitrafficking community is not experienced as such by young migrants.     Keywords: Human trafficking<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0002-7162
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716213519242
ID  - ref1
ER  -