EICHORCondition: Unaccompanied Migration · Sponsor: New York University
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This study seeks to address the urgent need for theoretically and empirically informed interventions that would address the increasing numbers of unaccompanied minors migrating from rural to urban centers in developing countries for better economic opportunities. This process often results in hazardous child labor defined as work that is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful; interfering with schooling and health and mental health functioning, and leading to several other disproportionate risks. Unaccompanied migrant child laborers' vulnerability is further intensified by the lack of parental protection and community belonging in the host urban center. The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that 9.6% of children (ages 5 to 17) across the globe are child laborers and draws attention to migrant child laborers as an underreported and highly vulnerable group, a significant portion of which are female with no education. Poverty has been identified as the main driver of child labor, with family context also being a critical contributing factor. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the highest rates of child labor (24%), with Ghana -the focus of this study- registering one of the highest child labor prevalence at 22%, including unaccompanied child migrant laborers. In Ghana, unaccompanied adolescent girls migrate from the Northern region to urban centers in the south to work in the informal economy. Load carrying is the most common type of labor for t…
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Ozge Sensoy Bahar · 617 610 6814 · osb208@nyu.edu
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Inclusion Criteria: Adolescent girls' inclusion criteria are: * Enrolled in school and living within a family (defined broadly -not necessarily biological parents) * Ages 11 to 14 * Skipping school in the past academic term (with at least 10% of unexcused absences). * Capable of giving assent The caregiver inclusion criteria * Age 18 or older * Self-identified as primary caregiver of the adolescent girl * Capable of providing informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: \- Participants that do not meet the criteria or exhibit a lack of understanding of the study procedures and hence not able to provide informed consent will be excluded.
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| University of Ghana | Tamale, Ghana | Recruiting |
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