Childhood deployed : remaking child soldiers in Sierra Leone /

"Childhood Deployed examines the reintegration of former child soldiers in Sierra Leone. Based on eighteen months of participant-observer ethnographic fieldwork and ten years of follow-up research, the book argues that there is a fundamental disconnect between the Western idea of the child sold...

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Main Author: Shepler, Susan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2014]
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