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Children's Rights and the Football Industry

Dr Eleanor Drywood is leading a research project on migration, child footballers, and the football industry. This has resulted most recently in an extensive report, commissioned by UNICEF, to guide professional football clubs on how to protect and promote children’s rights in their recruitment practices.

  • Esson, J. Darby, J, Drywood, E., Mason, C, and Yilmaz, S. ‘Children Before Players: Protecting and realising children’s rights: A guide for Professional football clubs’ UNICEF, 2020
  • Yilmaz, S., Esson, J., Darby, P., Drywood, E., & Mason, C. (2020). Children’s rights and the regulations on the transfer of young players in football International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 55(1), 115-124. doi:10.1177/1012690218786665
  • Esson, J., & Drywood, E. (2018). Challenging popular representations of child trafficking in football Challenging popular representations of child trafficking in football. Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice, 4(1), 60-72.
  • Drywood, E. W. (2016). "When we buy a young boy...": Migrant Footballers, Children's Rights and the Case for EU Intervention. In I. Iusmen, & H. Stalford (Eds.), The EU as a Children's Rights Actor: Law, Policy and Structural Dimensions, Berlin & Toronto: Barbara Budrich, pp. 191-219).

 

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