Child Labour in India : Globalization, Power, and the Politics of International Children's Rights download ebook PDF, MOBI
9780199466801 English 0199466807 India has the largest number of child labourers in the world, and has been the subject of intense media and political campaigns in the North aimed at addressing the abuse of children's rights. This book explores children's rights as a site of power and reveals how the rights discourse has beenused by international actors, national elites, and local NGOs in the child labour debate in India.While discussing the children's rights in the contemporary world, the author analyses human rights and power along with insights from postcolonial theorists. He provides empirical accounts of how three Indian NGOs - Bonded Labour Liberation Front, Butterflies, and South Asian Coalition on ChildServitude - are using the discourse of children's rights to challenge child labour practices. Combining global and local perspectives to arrive at a comprehensive picture, the book locates the struggle for child rights on two fronts: critiquing neo-liberal globalization and challenging rights violations in India., The book explores the understanding of children's rights as a site of power and how the rights discourse has been used by international actors, national elites and local NGOs in the child labour debate in India. The work focuses on Indian NGOs and their recognition of the fact that children's rights are a sophisticated form of Western imperialism even as they also understand how children's rights are an important tool for fighting imperialism and state violations. It provides a critical theoretical exploration of children's rights in the contemporary world that synthesizes an analysis of human rights and power along with insights from postcolonial theorists. The author provides fascinating empirical insights into how three Indian NGOs---Bonded Labour Liberation Front, Butterflies and South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude---are using the discourse of children's rights to challenge child labour practices. The study includes international and local perspectives thereby rendering a comprehensive examination of the status of children's rights as they accrue today.
9780199466801 English 0199466807 India has the largest number of child labourers in the world, and has been the subject of intense media and political campaigns in the North aimed at addressing the abuse of children's rights. This book explores children's rights as a site of power and reveals how the rights discourse has beenused by international actors, national elites, and local NGOs in the child labour debate in India.While discussing the children's rights in the contemporary world, the author analyses human rights and power along with insights from postcolonial theorists. He provides empirical accounts of how three Indian NGOs - Bonded Labour Liberation Front, Butterflies, and South Asian Coalition on ChildServitude - are using the discourse of children's rights to challenge child labour practices. Combining global and local perspectives to arrive at a comprehensive picture, the book locates the struggle for child rights on two fronts: critiquing neo-liberal globalization and challenging rights violations in India., The book explores the understanding of children's rights as a site of power and how the rights discourse has been used by international actors, national elites and local NGOs in the child labour debate in India. The work focuses on Indian NGOs and their recognition of the fact that children's rights are a sophisticated form of Western imperialism even as they also understand how children's rights are an important tool for fighting imperialism and state violations. It provides a critical theoretical exploration of children's rights in the contemporary world that synthesizes an analysis of human rights and power along with insights from postcolonial theorists. The author provides fascinating empirical insights into how three Indian NGOs---Bonded Labour Liberation Front, Butterflies and South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude---are using the discourse of children's rights to challenge child labour practices. The study includes international and local perspectives thereby rendering a comprehensive examination of the status of children's rights as they accrue today.