Abstract:

Despite the important progress on the Rights of the Child, they are still confronted with major problems. The beginning of the problems is the child labors that rapidly increasing in the world. Children in school age should be in school, but they are join labor force quickly. The aim of this study is to research the factors affecting join labor force of children in school age. The study was a descriptive study on the scan type. Study group constitutes 55 child labor who working in various jobs in Istanbul. For to collect data was used the interview form that including consisted of open-ended questions on children's demographic, migration, poverty, education and join labor force process. Starting from the data obtained from the interviews were identified factors that affecting children to join labor force. Results were interpreted in the context of children's expressions. In the study, were described with the students' expression, the factors of demographics, migration, poverty, join labor experience prevent students education and join labor force. The most important results of the study is students feel they have to work because of their poor families and children are unable to cope with join labor force factors and join labor force. Therefore, he children who is taken under the risk of join labor force and their families into the social security system has been proposed, in the context of the right to education

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