Michael Bourdillon is a professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of Zimbabwe and an honorary fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He has worked with street children in Harare, and with working children locally and internationally; and he has published extensively in this field.William Myers is retired from the United Nations, where he addressed child work issues with UNICEF and the ILO. He is currently an associate in the Department of Human and Community Development at the University of California, Davis.

• Preface 1. Introduction: Development, children, and protection Part I Things Fall Apart 2. Beyond war: "Suffering" among displaced Congolese children in Dar es Salaam 3. Protecting children from trafficking in Benin: In need of politics and participation 4. The spatialization of child protection: notes from the occupied Palestinian territory 5. Following the law, but losing the spirit of child protection in Kenya Part II. The Importance of Context 6. Children’s migration for work in Bangladesh: The policy implications of intra-household relations 7. Child protection and harmful traditional practices: female early marriage and genital modification in Ethiopia 8. Global priorities against local context: Protecting Bhutanese refugee children in Nepal Part III. The Effects of Poverty 9. Rethinking orphanhood and vulnerability in Ethiopia 10. Children’s responses to risk in agricultural work in Andhra Pradesh, India 11. "Risky Lives": Risk and protection for children growing-up in poverty Part IV. Interventions 12. Action research exploring information communication technologies (ICT) and child protection in Thailand 13. Child protection: A role for conditional cash transfer programmes? 14. Listening to Iraqi refugee children in Jordan, but then what? Exploring the impact of participatory research with children Part V. Reflections 15. Concluding reflections: How might we really protect children?

Michael Bourdillon is a professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of Zimbabwe and an honorary fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He has worked with street children in Harare, and with working children locally and internationally; and he has published extensively in this field.William Myers is retired from the United Nations, where he addressed child work issues with UNICEF and the ILO. He is currently an associate in the Department of Human and Community Development at the University of California, Davis.

• Preface 1. Introduction: Development, children, and protection Part I Things Fall Apart 2. Beyond war: "Suffering" among displaced Congolese children in Dar es Salaam 3. Protecting children from trafficking in Benin: In need of politics and participation 4. The spatialization of child protection: notes from the occupied Palestinian territory 5. Following the law, but losing the spirit of child protection in Kenya Part II. The Importance of Context 6. Children’s migration for work in Bangladesh: The policy implications of intra-household relations 7. Child protection and harmful traditional practices: female early marriage and genital modification in Ethiopia 8. Global priorities against local context: Protecting Bhutanese refugee children in Nepal Part III. The Effects of Poverty 9. Rethinking orphanhood and vulnerability in Ethiopia 10. Children’s responses to risk in agricultural work in Andhra Pradesh, India 11. "Risky Lives": Risk and protection for children growing-up in poverty Part IV. Interventions 12. Action research exploring information communication technologies (ICT) and child protection in Thailand 13. Child protection: A role for conditional cash transfer programmes? 14. Listening to Iraqi refugee children in Jordan, but then what? Exploring the impact of participatory research with children Part V. Reflections 15. Concluding reflections: How might we really protect children?