Breaking the child labour cycle through education: issues and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on children of in-country seasonal migrant workers in the brick kilns of Nepal

Daly, A, Hillis, A, Shrestha, BK and Shrestha, SM (2021) Breaking the child labour cycle through education: issues and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on children of in-country seasonal migrant workers in the brick kilns of Nepal. Children's Geographies. ISSN 1473-3277

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Abstract

This viewpoint offers a commentary on the status of Nepalese children of migrant workers in the brick kilns of the construction industry and the potential impacts of COVID-19 on their lives. The paper identifies a temporal cycle of movement in the life of a child from a migrant working family with the variances that need to be taken into consideration by stakeholders to tackle child labour, and to reduce risks to children of migrant workers posed by the current pandemic. It draws on the education and emergencies literature to examine ‘lessons learned’ and considers key questions to ask in the time of COVID-19, especially in the education sector, to mitigate further entrenchment of exclusion of this group of children in Nepal.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	1205 Urban and Regional Planning, 1604 Human Geography, 1607 Social Work
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Divisions:	Education Public and Allied Health
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Date of acceptance:	12 February 2021
Date of first compliant Open Access:	29 April 2021
Date Deposited:	03 Mar 2021 12:17
Last Modified:	04 Sep 2021 05:50
DOI or ID number:	10.1080/14733285.2021.1891406
URI:	https://ljmu-9.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/14547

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