Chapter 1: Introduction: International Child Protection and its Discontents.- Chapter 2: Moral Economies and Child Labour in Artisanal Gold Mining in Ghana.- Chapter 3: Intergenerational Activism as an Alternative to Child Saving: The Example of the Peruvian Movement of Working Children.- Chapter 4: Illusions in the Protection of Working Children.- Chapter 5: Children Born of Wartime Captivity and Abuse: Politics and Practices of Integration in Northern Uganda.- Chapter 6: Protection versus Reintegration of Child Soldiers: Assistance Trade-offs within the Child protection regime.- Chapter 7: Children’s Rights and Child Prostitution: Critical Reflections on Thailand in the 1990s and Beyond.- Chapter 8: Why Child Mobility is Not Always Child Trafficking: The Moral Economy of Children’s Movement in Benin and Ethiopia.- Chapter 9: Child Protection in Palestine and Jordan: From Rights to Principles?.- Chapter 10: Conclusion: Towards Politics and Participation.- Postscript: What is Wrong with International Child Protection and What Changes are Needed?.- Index.

This book interrogates the international child protection regime, with a particular focus on its weaknesses and failures. It looks at the lack of accountability, the normativity, and the tendency to recreate patterns of power and exclusion that blight otherwise good intentions. The book assesses why the regime falls short of its ideals and offers ideas for what can be done to improve it. Bringing together influential, established voices, and emerging scholars who work on issues related to childhood, youth, policy, and practice, the book offers a timely intervention that aims to push the world of international child protection in more progressive directions.   Neil Howard is Lecturer at the University of Bath, UK.Samuel Okyere is Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol, UK.

The book offers a timely and engaged perspective on present-day challenges in the field of children’s rights studies. Based on a carefully documented assessment of the international child protection regime, the authors propose thought-provoking new avenues for countering prevalent protectionist perspectives. The well substantiated empirical case studies and thorough reflections examine alternatives that are respectful of the views of the concerned children and communities in crafting policy solutions to violations of children’s fundamental rights. The variety of themes and the broad geographical scope make this book an excellent resource for anyone who wants to engage with children’s rights in a critical and constructive way. Karl Hanson, Director of the Centre for Children’s Rights Studies, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Interrogates the international child protection regime, with a particular focus on its weaknesses and failures Looks at the lack of accountability, the normativity, and the tendency to recreate patterns Assesses why the regime falls short of its ideals and offers ideas for what can be done to improve