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Working With Child Prostitutes in Thailand

Problems of practice and interpretation

The Open University, H.K.Montgomery{at}open.ac.uk

Conducting anthropological fieldwork on the emotive issue of child prostitution raises difficult issues for anthropologists and other researchers. This article examines the ethical dilemmas of working with these extremely vulnerable children, focusing on the difference between the researcher's own interpretations and those given by the children themselves and the implications this has for child-centred anthropology and the implementation of children's rights.

Key Words: child-centred anthropology • child prostitution • ethics • methods

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