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Acknowledgments vii Contents Acknowledgments ix One What Is Childhood? 1 Two Background to Vietnam 24 Three Child Rights and the International Aid Community 53 Four Why Children Work 85 Five Children on the Streets 109 Six Life in a Reform School 134 Seven Childhood without Discrimination 164 Eight Institutional Life and Children’s Coping Strategies 187 Nine Children on the Global Margins? 207 Bibliography 227 Index 237 vii viii Acknowledgments ...

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