Part 1:
The movement of the child
Part 3: Interrogating the rescue narrative
- positions the movement of the child to the institution as a form of child trafficking under international law
- explores the concepts of child selling vs child trafficking
- examines whether the requirement of a 'purpose of exploitation' can be met.
- investigates the basis of orphanage tourism through the lens of colonial paternalism.
- articulates a western ‘saviour complex’ and examines the celebration of cultural and colonial paternalism as a motivation for participating in orphanage tourism.
- the desire to “save orphans” creates a demand for orphans and orphanage tourism. This demand drives the paper orphaning process, and thus child trafficking.
a legal account of child institutionalisation for profit in developing nations
Part 2: The construction of orphanhood
- investigates how the legal construction of the orphan legitimises the trafficking process
- examines the role of orphans in developing nations and how they represent an iconography of emergency to the western world.
- speculates that the visibility of the developing nation orphans creates a donor driven aid system which privileges orphans to the exclusion of other vulnerabilities.
- this donor driven aid system creates the issue of orphanage tourism which in turn creates the demand for 'orphans'.
Kate van Doore
Early Career Milestone
November 2014