In this paper, we report on a study of the psychosocial effects child domestic work (CDW) in six countries and relevance our findings to international legislation. Our results suggest that CDW is highly heterogeneous. While some young workers long hours, suffer physical punishment are at risk harm, others able attend school benefit from good relationships with their employers networks support. Child India Togo were most harm. We conclude classification employment as hazardous would not be...

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Through the theoretical lens of a "violence continuum" we explore how, in many most marginalized areas Mexico, global and regional historical contemporary structures have shaped constrained men's ability to achieve hegemonic masculinity neoliberal Mexico. An analysis statistics local research studies on male homicide is used understand how impoverishment extreme inequality can undermine capacity access dignified standard living exercise their masculinity, process which draw interpersonal...

The aim of the study was to explore effects domestic employment on well-being child workers (CDWs) in India and Philippines. A questionnaire administered 700 CDWs school-attending controls two countries. In India, 36% started work before age 12, 48% worked because poverty or repay loans, 46% >10 h per day, 31% were physically punished by employers. Filipino mainly migrants from rural areas, 47% working continue their studies 87% attending school, compared with 35% Indians. 67% 25% scored...

Abstract Background Organophosphorous (OP) and carbamic pesticides are used in large quantities on tobacco plantations Nayarit State, Mexico, where up to 3000 children their families work. OP easily inhaled or absorbed through the skin may be particularly vulnerable because of smaller body mass, height more regular hand‐ mouth contact. The aim this study is assess effect pesticide exposure acetylcholinesterase levels very young migrant Mexican workers younger siblings. Methods Blood samples...

This article discusses the manner in which social and historical factors impact upon indigenous conceptions of health health-seeking behaviour, reinforcing their authoritative knowledge about birth wellbeing. It explores how Mexican Huichol migrant labourers experience structural, everyday symbolic violence while away working, home communities. The study was based on semi-structured interviews observations with 33 12 key informants from community (traditional healthcare providers), sector...

Every year, around two thousand Huichol families migrate from their homelands in the highlands of northwestern Mexico to coastal region Nayarit State, where they are employed on small plantations pick and thread tobacco leaves. During four‐month stay, live, work, eat, sleep open air next fields, exposing themselves an unknown cocktail pesticides all day, every day. In this article, I describe how these indigenous migrants more at risk because historical contemporary structural factors ensure...

How women make decisions about care-seeking during pregnancy and childbirth, is a key determinant of maternal child health (MCH) outcomes. Indigenous communities continue to display the highest levels infant mortality in Mexico, fact often accounted for by reference inadequate access quality services. A growing body research has identified gender inequality as major MCH, although this rarely been situated historically context social epistemological shifts, that occurred under colonialism. I...

Mexico's indigenous regions are characterised by socio-economic marginalisation and poor health outcomes the Maternal Mortality Rate in communities continues to be around six times higher than national rate. Using as a case study Huichol community of North-Western Mexico we will discuss how institutional welfare programmes which aim address accepted risk factors for maternal undermined series structural barriers put women especially harm's way. Semi-structured interviews observational data...

An estimated 173 million children are employed worldwide in agriculture. The rural nature of farm work exposes to extreme climatic conditions, agrochemicals, physical hazards, animals and insects, parasites infection. additional risks migrant accommodation lifestyles for very young make this form employment among the three most hazardous. health outcomes child agricultural developing countries under-researched. majority published studies focus on acute U.S. While indicative these likely...

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Preventable maternal and infant mortality continues to be significantly higher in Latin American indigenous regions compared non-indigenous, with inequalities of race, gender poverty exacerbated by deficiencies service provision. Standard programmes aimed at improving perinatal health have had a limited impact on rates these populations, state national statistical data evaluations services are little relevance the environments that most ethnicities inhabit. This study sought novel...

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the theory, policy and practice child labour in Latin America. Interventions reduce are more likely be successful if they locally‐driven, supported by legislation based on theoretical understandings childhood that reflect realities needs children, families communities whose lives aim improve. Design/methodology/approach Sociological anthropological discourses children's life worlds reviewed situate changes our understanding labour. These...

Mexico's indigenous communities continue to experience higher levels of mortality and poorer access health care services than non-indigenous regions, a pattern that is repeated across the globe. We conducted two-year ethnographic study pregnancies childbirth in an Wixárika community explore structural causes this excess mortality. In process we also identified major differences between official infant rates, numbers infants born women our sample who did not survive.We interviewed 67 during...

The manner in which urban locations are drawn into the global economy defines their spatial organisation, distribution and utilisation. relationships that generated by this process include economic exchanges, racialised dynamics between workers owners, gendered divisions of labour use abuse natural resources infrastructure. These encounters globalisation often unequal or awkward mediated varying forms violence, from structural to interpersonal, as these used rebalance terms on they meet....

This study used participatory methods to explore how indigenous children understand the effects of agricultural labour on their bodies. Twenty-eight aged between 7 and 12 years who attend government-run Florece centres for migrant working participated in a body-mapping exercise during which they were asked draw talk about bodies looked felt after day's work. Observational data gathered validation. The morning return families plantations lunch. Their work consists picking, carrying threading...

Social justice framing and approaches can help accelerate progress towards gender equality reducing health wellbeing inequities. Yet in addition to promoting action on the inequitable distribution of power privilege, campaigners need make a case for state that proactively promotes upholds collective wellbeing, say Sarah Hawkes, Jennie Gamlin, Kent Buse

By understanding a community’s medical system, we are able to see its body ontology and how the people within it live in relation world, historically constructed ideological position. Modernisation development have restructured Indigenous communities devalued traditional ontologies, including systems. This is global pattern, where historical power relationships defined coloniality of being from this, organised healthcare, governance, education patriarchal capitalist universals. These social...


 Introduction to the special issue 'Embodied Inequalities of Anthropocene', guest edited by Jennie Gamlin, Laura Montesi, Sahra Gibbon, Paola Sesia, Jean Segata, and Ceres Victora.