Today is Migrants' Day. Amidst the celebratory posters, well-intentioned messages and wishes, there is one fact that is often glossed over: Refugee child laborers.<\/p>\n
It is not only people who cross borders; poverty, precarity and exploitation come with them.<\/p>\n
For refugee children, migration often means the suspension of childhood. Workshops instead of school, shifts instead of play, the anxiety of \u201csaving the present\u201d instead of dreaming of the future...<\/p>\n
In a country where they do not speak the language, they are employed in unregistered jobs as the heaviest and cheapest labor. Because they cannot object. Because they are seen as \u201creplaceable\u201d.<\/p>\n
These children are made to work not only because they are poor, but also because they are refugees. Their identity makes them more vulnerable.<\/p>\n
Their names are not recorded in work accidents, doors are closed in their faces when they seek their rights.<\/p>\n
This situation, which is often justified with tales of \u201ccontributing to the family\u201d or \u201cholding on to life\u201d, is in reality one of the harshest forms of modern child labor.<\/p>\n
Migrants\u201c Day should be a day not only to remember migrants but also to talk about the inequalities that deepen with migration. Refugee child labor is not an \u201dintegration problem\" but a clear violation of rights.<\/p>\n
The solution should be sought not in aid parcels, but in public education, social protection, supervision and political will.<\/p>\n
Today, it is not enough to wish for refugee children. No Migrants' Day has real meaning without confronting the system that employs them.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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