Children on the Move in the Developing World: Sharing Research Findings
6 - 8 May 2008
Conference Centre Bramber House
UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX

This three day workshop aimed to bring together young and more experienced researchers as well as NGO members working in the field of child migration. A particular focus was on the migration of children for work or education in the developing world and the principle aim of the workshop was to stimulate dialogue between the different researchers. Papers were presented on migrants from North and West Africa, Cape Verde, Cambodia, Laos, Congo, Southern Africa, Bangladesh, India, and Peru, to internal, regional and international destinations. During the workshop discussions of these diverse examples were facilitated to generate insights about the current nature of child migration and how these findings can inform future research and policy decisions

• Session 1 - Young Male Youth in the Informal Economy

From craving money to looking ahead. A study of young labour migrants in the informal economy in Burkina Faso 
Dorte Thorsen

From home to the street: Cape Verdean street children’s migrations
Lorenzo I. Bordonaro

• Session 2 - Migration Choices in Bangladesh

In Search of Alternatives: Child Migration for Work 
Sumaiya Khair 

Children’s Migration for Work: A Value-Laden and Policed Symbol of Honour and Belonging 
Karin Heissler

• Session 3 - Policy and Practice

Migration Policy, Social Protection and Autonomous Child Migrants: Examples from the Americas and Southern Europe
Marisa O Ensor

Can we tell children "Do not migrate"? - Programmatic challenges from the field
Aida Orgocka

Challenging violence against child migrants: some experiences of Child Hope in Bangladesh, India, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Peru
Emma Crewe

Issues and responses in Save the Children's work on children on the move
Bill Bell and Daniela Reale

Following the Trails of Children and youth in West Africa: Ethnography of the Benin-Togo-Ghana-Nigeria axis
Abdou Ndao

• Session 4 - Family and Social Context of Migration Processes and Decision Making

Gendering Children’s Migration: the impact of gender on processes and experiences of migration
Iman Hashim

Independent child migration: Insights, blind-spots and dilemmas arising from household survey data
Roy B.C. Huijsmans

An Ethnographic Account of Independent Child Migration in Benin 
Neil Howard

• Session 5 - Using National Surveys to Explore Child Migration

Child Migration in National Surveys
Adriana Castaldo and Gunjan Sondhi

Mainstreaming Children in Migration Policy: How Census Data Can Help. Examples of Argentina, Chile and South Africa
Shahin Yaqub

• Session 6 - Vulnerability at Home and at Work and Strategies to Combat it

           
“Behind Closed Doors” – The vulnerability of the child within the household and Child Migration into Domestic Work in Cambodia
Ellie Brown

Poverty, migration and sex work:  youth transitions in Ethiopia
Lorraine van Blerk

The strategic agency of migrant adolescent prostitutes in Cape Town, South Africa
Zosa De Sas Kropiwnicki

• Session 7 - Children Migrating from North to Southern Ghana and Back

                                                           
Sustainable return of independent child migrants into their home communities in Northern Ghana
Stephen Kwankye and Cynthia Tagoe

Coming And Going: Migration and Livelihood Strategies of Female Youth in Accra, Ghana
Mariama Awumbila

• Session 8 - Children Migrating as Refugees                      

Myth of lost Boys: the interconnection of forced and voluntary migration
Kasia Grabska

‘Finding a Life’: Migration, Displacement and Family Separation Amongst Congolese Boys and Girls in Dar es Salaam
Gillian Mann

• Session 9 - Frameworks and Priorities for Future Research

Introduced by Ann Whitehead

• Session 10 - Considering Child Migration over Time

                                                           
Now and back then: child labour migration through the lens of South-Indian work life histories
Vegard Iversen

Insight through Hindsight: The Stories of Adult Angolans who Came to Portugal as Child Migrants
Cecilie Øien 

Changes in the domestic labour market for female young migrants over the last 30 years: The case of child and young domestic workers in Abidjan
Mélanie Jacquemin