Samuel Okyere
Biographic Data
| ID | 317298 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Okyere |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Okyere |
| SIGNATURE | OKYERE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1389-1127 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The rod, the child, and the slave
Campaigns to prohibit the use of corporal punishment against children receive only a fraction of the interest and support that is elicited by campaigns to eliminate ‘child slavery’, even though the latter is said to be defined primarily by the use of violence to control children. This article draws on research with young Ghanaian men and women who, as children, experienced what antislavery NGOs describe as ‘child slavery’ to show that the kind of…
Child marriage in Ghana
This article contributes to debates on the drivers of girl child marriage drawing on qualitative research with 15 Ghanaian women who married before the age of 18. The findings show that these women’s entry into marriage emerged less from tradition than from intersecting structural constraints, including poverty, limited access to sexual and reproductive health services, unintended pregnancy, gendered power relations and the absence of viable live…
Linking young people's precarious labour, migration, and their social mobility in Ghana
International Child Protection
Towards a more holistic understanding of child participation
Like the stranger at a funeral who cries more than the bereaved
This article contributes to debates on the practicality and utility of prior ethical review in ethnography and qualitative research using an ethnography of children's involvement in artisanal gold mining work in Ghana as a case study. Reflecting on dilemmas and obstacles encountered in attempts to employ prescribed institutional ethical guidance modelled for childhood research in the UK during the fieldwork, the discussion brings to attention som…
Shock and awe’
This paper is a critique of the dominant anti-trafficking discourse and activism in Ghana. It argues that the discourse grossly underplays the role of external forces in shaping the conditions underpinning children’s labour mobility in the past and the hardships underpinning the phenomenon today. In place of critical analysis and understanding, anti-child-trafficking campaigns employ melodramatic ‘shock and awe’ tactics and a tendency to blame lo…
Are working children’s rights and child labour abolition complementary or opposing realms
This article is based on the accounts of a group of children who work at an artisanal gold mining site. Their work is potentially harmful; yet, it is also the means by which they attempt to access their rights to education and other opportunities. The article argues that child labour preventative efforts must recognize and address this complication. This is in order to develop interventions that unquestionably serve some working children’s best i…
Are working children’s rights and child labour abolition complementary or opposing realms
This article is based on the accounts of a group of children who work at an artisanal gold mining site. Their work is potentially harmful; yet, it is also the means by which they attempt to access their rights to education and other opportunities. The article argues that child labour preventative efforts must recognize and address this complication. This is in order to develop interventions that unquestionably serve some working children’s best i…
Towards a more holistic understanding of child participation
Linking young people's precarious labour, migration, and their social mobility in Ghana
Like the stranger at a funeral who cries more than the bereaved
This article contributes to debates on the practicality and utility of prior ethical review in ethnography and qualitative research using an ethnography of children's involvement in artisanal gold mining work in Ghana as a case study. Reflecting on dilemmas and obstacles encountered in attempts to employ prescribed institutional ethical guidance modelled for childhood research in the UK during the fieldwork, the discussion brings to attention som…
Shock and awe’
This paper is a critique of the dominant anti-trafficking discourse and activism in Ghana. It argues that the discourse grossly underplays the role of external forces in shaping the conditions underpinning children’s labour mobility in the past and the hardships underpinning the phenomenon today. In place of critical analysis and understanding, anti-child-trafficking campaigns employ melodramatic ‘shock and awe’ tactics and a tendency to blame lo…
Are working children’s rights and child labour abolition complementary or opposing realms
This article is based on the accounts of a group of children who work at an artisanal gold mining site. Their work is potentially harmful; yet, it is also the means by which they attempt to access their rights to education and other opportunities. The article argues that child labour preventative efforts must recognize and address this complication. This is in order to develop interventions that unquestionably serve some working children’s best i…
Shock and awe’
This paper is a critique of the dominant anti-trafficking discourse and activism in Ghana. It argues that the discourse grossly underplays the role of external forces in shaping the conditions underpinning children’s labour mobility in the past and the hardships underpinning the phenomenon today. In place of critical analysis and understanding, anti-child-trafficking campaigns employ melodramatic ‘shock and awe’ tactics and a tendency to blame lo…
Like the stranger at a funeral who cries more than the bereaved
This article contributes to debates on the practicality and utility of prior ethical review in ethnography and qualitative research using an ethnography of children's involvement in artisanal gold mining work in Ghana as a case study. Reflecting on dilemmas and obstacles encountered in attempts to employ prescribed institutional ethical guidance modelled for childhood research in the UK during the fieldwork, the discussion brings to attention som…
Towards a more holistic understanding of child participation
International Child Protection
Linking young people's precarious labour, migration, and their social mobility in Ghana
The rod, the child, and the slave
Campaigns to prohibit the use of corporal punishment against children receive only a fraction of the interest and support that is elicited by campaigns to eliminate ‘child slavery’, even though the latter is said to be defined primarily by the use of violence to control children. This article draws on research with young Ghanaian men and women who, as children, experienced what antislavery NGOs describe as ‘child slavery’ to show that the kind of…
Child marriage in Ghana
This article contributes to debates on the drivers of girl child marriage drawing on qualitative research with 15 Ghanaian women who married before the age of 18. The findings show that these women’s entry into marriage emerged less from tradition than from intersecting structural constraints, including poverty, limited access to sexual and reproductive health services, unintended pregnancy, gendered power relations and the absence of viable live…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (4 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Sex work and related issues (3 works)