Barrel children
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barrel-children-281-8056831
title:
Barrel children
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Barrel children are children who are abandoned or "left behind" by their parents who are seeking a better life abroad. Dr. Claudette Crawford-Brown, the University of the West Indies academic who first described the phenomenon of barrel children, defines "barrel children" as those children who, while waiting in the Caribbean to migrate to their parents in the metropoles of North America and the United Kingdom, receive material resources in the form of food and clothing in lieu of direct care. Dr
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Children relinquished by their parents moving abroad
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_children
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2024-04-25T15:26:06Z
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