‘Shock and Awe’: A critique of the Ghana-centric child trafficking discourse
‘Shock and Awe’: A critique of the Ghana-centric child trafficking discourse
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“震惊与敬畏”：对以加纳为中心的儿童贩运言论的批评
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10.14197/atr.20121797
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2017
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S. Okyere
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S. Okyere
这篇论文是对加纳主流反人口贩卖话语和行动主义的批判。本文认为，这种论述严重低估了外部力量在塑造过去支撑儿童劳动力流动的条件和今天支撑这一现象的困难方面所起的作用。反对拐卖儿童的运动没有进行批判性的分析和理解，而是采用耸人听闻的“震慑”策略，并倾向于将活动人士声称的该国“普遍”的拐卖儿童行为归咎于当地文化或传统。这篇论文表明，加纳占主导地位的反贩运话语和行动主义因此重振了历史上和持久的不平等的外部因果因素，这些因素推动了今天加纳儿童的劳动力流动。本文对这一问题进行了论证，并提出了相应的纠正措施。
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 phenomenon today. In place of critical analysis and understanding, anti-child-trafficking campaigns employ melodramatic ‘shock and awe’ tactics and a tendency to blame local culture or traditions for activists’ claims of ‘pervasive’ child trafficking in the country. The paper suggests that dominant anti-trafficking discourse and activism in Ghana thus reinvigorate historic and persistent external causal agents of inequality which drive Ghanaian children’s labour mobility today. The paper demonstrates this problem and offers correctives to it.