Recent literature concerning work in the lives of children raises several contentious issues. This contribution starts with issues arising from conceptualizations of childhood: we need to understand the continuities between the various stages of childhood and the adult world, and see children as active agents in their own development. The article discusses discourse and terminology surrounding children's work; children's rights and their relationship with fundamental human rights; the relationship between work and school; and briefly the relationship between children's work and poverty. It questions whether discourse on ‘abolishing child labour’ works in the children's interests.

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(2010) 'Children as research collaborators : issues and reections from a mobility study in sub-Saharan Africa.', American journal of community psychology., 46 (1-2). pp. 215-227. Further information on publisher's website:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10464-010-9317-x Publisher's copyright statement:The nal publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10464-010-9317-x Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Background to the child mobility research project and its child

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