Hidden Child Workers: Young Carers in Zimbabwe
Hidden Child Workers: Young Carers in Zimbabwe
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隐藏的童工：津巴布韦的年轻护理人员
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2004
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E. Robson
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E. Robson
在哈拉雷，年轻人照顾家庭中受抚养的成年成员的访谈为基础的案例研究，本文将津巴布韦年轻照顾者的经验与全球力量-即艾滋病毒/艾滋病的流行和经济自由化联系起来。有人认为，首先，年轻人提供护理是国民经济中一个基本上被隐藏和不被重视的方面，这是养护宏观经济政策和艾滋病毒/艾滋病爆发的结果。第二，青年人有权要求承认他们的工作是工作。第三，虽然承认将童年概念化是有问题的，但需要减少强调北方关于童年是玩耍和天真的神话，而更多地关注维护儿童的工作权以及在适当情况下在工作中得到支持的权利。全球进程与儿童作为家庭内护理提供者的本地化经验之间的衔接有助于重新引入社会再生产作为全球化辩论的一个重要（但往往缺失）方面。此外，这篇文章增加了越来越多的文学对童年的地理，同时解决文学内的不平衡，即工作的年轻人和全球南方的相对被忽视。结论中提出了政策建议，以承认和支持非洲的年轻护理人员，同时呼吁进一步研究。（作者）
Drawing on an interview-based case study of young people caring for dependent adult members of their households in Harare this paper connects the experiences of young carers in Zimbabwe to global forces--namely the HIV/AIDS pandemic and economic liberalisation. It is argued firstly that care-giving by young people is a largely hidden and unappreciated aspect of national economies which is growing as an outcome of conservation macroeconomic policies and the HIV/AIDS explosion. Secondly that young people have a right to recognition of their work as work. Thirdly while acknowledging that conceptualising childhood is problematic there needs to be less emphasis on northern myths of childhood as a time of play and innocence and more attention on defending childrens rights to work as well as to be supported in their work under appropriate circumstances. The articulation between global processes and the localised experiences of individual children as providers of care within the home contributes to efforts to re-introduce social reproduction as an important (but often missing) aspect of debates around globalisation. In addition this article adds to the growing literature on the geographies of childhood while tackling the imbalance within that literature whereby working young people and those of the global South are relatively neglected. Suggestions are offered in the conclusions for policy recommendations to recognise and support young carers in Africa while calling for further research. (authors)