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    Verdingkinder, Verdingsbuben, "contract children", or "indentured child laborers" were children in Switzerland who were removed from their families by...
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    least tolerated by the Swiss authorities referring to the so-called Verdingkinder, as up to 100,000 children were needed as cheap workers mostly on farms...
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  • addressed the fate of forced child labourers in Switzerland, the so-called Verdingkinder, a term formerly used in the Swiss-German language. Another "integration...
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  • drama film directed by Markus Imboden. It dramatizes the fate of two Verdingkinder in Emmental. Max is an orphan whose one true passion is to play the...
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    living with new families. They were known as contract children or Verdingkinder. Removing children of ethnic minorities from their families to be adopted...
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    after emancipation, not before. General Types of slavery: Child labour/Verdingkinder/Swiss children coercion reparation initiative Child slavery Coolies...
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    agriculture in 19th-century Switzerland, but also to the 1960s so-called Verdingkinder (literally: "contract children" or "indentured child laborers") were...
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    adoption under the rational of child welfare. This was often the case for Verdingkinder or "contract children" in Switzerland between the 1850s through the...
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    South, 1949 book, about U.S. before 1860 Rural tenancy Sharecropping Verdingkinder Colonus (person) Kamajiro Hotta Dowell, Stephen (1876). A sketch of...
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  • living with new families. They were known as contract children or Verdingkinder. In South Korea, during the military dictatorship, the government pursued...
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  • he and his sister Yvonne (Wilkomirski's biological mother) had been Verdingkinder (or "earning children") — in other words, that they had been part of...
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    practices were also carried out in other European countries, like the Verdingkinder institution in Switzerland. Fattigauktion – 19th century Swedish "poor...
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    Child labour in Switzerland Die schwarzen Brüder Kinder der Landstrasse Verdingkinder Wiedergutmachungsinitiative "Mutter der Kaminfegerkinder" (in German)...
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    (reparation initiative) tangentially addressed the fate of the so-called Verdingkinder (forced child laborers), another integration project involving displaced...
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  • children Transnational child protection United States Unaccompanied minor Verdingkinder - Swiss children taken away from their impoverished parents, usually...
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    Berg have been filmed. Hartmann's grandmother was one of the so-called Verdingkinder, hence Hartmann is one of the most prominent supporters of the so-called...
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