Question

Constructs of childhood in the context of globalisation

Answer 1

Examines how discourses of childhood are mobilized in the context of globalization, where states attempt to define individual children as either falling within or outside childhood itself. ... Here globalization is defined primarily as economic technological migration.

Answer 2

In relation to children and childhood, thinking about globalization has tended to focus on education, issues of exploitation (particularly with regard to sex work, trafficking, and war), citizenship/rights, and, to some degree, media and technology.