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- Title
“Little Italian Slaves”: Lessons Learned from the Padrone Boys.
- Authors
Jalongo, Mary
- Abstract
The author discusses teaching about the padrone system, a form of child exploitation practiced in the U.S. In the padrone system, sponsors offered to educate European children in America but employed them as indentured servants. The author notes the difficulties faced by immigrant children in schools and how human trafficking operations employ people of the same nationality as those being exploited. She suggests studying exploitation of children can illustrate progress in child welfare.
- Subjects
PADRONE system; CHILD labor; EXPLOITATION of humans; HUMAN trafficking; EDUCATION
- Publication
Early Childhood Education Journal, 2008, Vol 36, Issue 3, p209
- ISSN
1082-3301
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1007/s10643-008-0294-8