How Child Labor Laws are Failing Migrant Children

Child labor laws are failing migrant children. As children from Latin America migrate to the United States in record numbers, many are ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor legislation. What steps are needed to ensure that vulnerable migrant children are protected from exploitation?

Discussants:

• Edward M. Emmett, Fellow in Energy and Transportation Policy, Baker Institute
• Tony Payan, Ph.D., Françoise and Edward Djerejian Fellow for Mexico Studies; Director, Center for the United States and Mexico, Baker Institute
• Luz Garcini, Ph.D., MPH, Rice Faculty Scholar, Baker Institute; Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, Rice University

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