Running as fast as they can: Children’s search for work on West African cocoa farms and the U.S. protocol that attempts to protect them

Very little is known about why children in West African region undertake risky migration to work in trafficked labor situations on Ivorian and Ghanaian cocoa farms. This paper addresses this gap by focusing on children’s constructions of how they arrived at the decision to run across borders in search of a better life, the journey encountered, the work conditions experienced, the realization that they had been “trafficked” and their journey back home.

Area of focus: Cocoa

Author(s): Anita Sheth and Elke de Buhr

Organisation/institution: The Freedom Center Journal

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