CONTRIBUTOR:

Michael Bourdillon

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor Emeritus

DEPARTMENT:

Department of Sociology

INSTITUTION:

University of Zimbabwe

BIOGRAPHY:

Michael Bourdillon was born in Zambia and has lived most of his life in Zimbabwe. After receiving a doctorate in Social Anthropology from Oxford University, he taught for over 25 years at the University of Zimbabwe. He has also taught in the University of Calabar, Nigeria, and has conducted two institutes on children and youth for CODESRIA in Senegal. He has also received visiting fellowships at the African Studies Centre, Leiden; the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, and Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, Wassenaar. He has worked with street children and working children through local NGOs and international child protection organisations. He has published widely on children and work, recently as a co-author in Rights and Wrongs of Children’s Work (Rutgers, 2010) and co-editor of African Children at Work: Working and Learning in Growing Up for Life (Bayreuth, LIT Verlag, 2012). He has also recently edited volumes on childhood poverty and protecting children. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute.