Child Labour in Relation to Minority Groups in Somalia: The Case of Bantus and Occupational Groups

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10.2991/978-2-38476-406-8_15How to use a DOI?

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Child Labour; Minority Groups; Bantus; Occupational Groups; Somalia

Abstract

This article is a critique and a call toward how the current traditional tripartite approaches fall short in dealing with child labor in minority groups. It focuses on Bantus and occupational minority groups in Somalia and uses Galtung’s theory of structural violence to show how these approaches forgo the invisible aspects of child labor beyond education and poverty commonly associated with the disadvantaged groups. In addition, it relies on interviews with minority parents and their children and calls for childhood studies and policymakers in Somalia to rethink the existing approaches and devise alternative ones that take precedence on social injustices in the conceptualization of the predominance of minority children working as child laborers. Finally, the article aims to call for policymakers and international organizations working on child labor to implement policies aimed at curbing while recognizing the vulnerability and the predominance of the minority identity in child labor.

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AU  - Abdiaziz Mohamed Ali
AU  - Nurhati Tangging
AU  - Halilintar Yusuf Kohar
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/05/22
TI  - Child Labour in Relation to Minority Groups in Somalia: The Case of Bantus and Occupational Groups
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Multidisciplinary Studies (ICoMSi 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 207
EP  - 225
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-406-8_15
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-406-8_15
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