The League of Nations and its Treatment of the mui tsai System

Authors

  • Magaly Rodríguez García Research Foundation Flanders (fwo), Vrije Universiteit Brussel

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24901/rehs.v35i138.118

Keywords:

international organizations, interwar period, child slavery, child labor, domestic service

Abstract

In the second half of the 19th century, British activists became interested in the mui tsai system that operated in various places in Asia, a system based on the practice of selling or transferring Chinese girls to wealthy families that would employ them in domestic service. During the interwar period, the League of Nations followed the initiative of those activists in England, and conducted a study of the mui tsai system through its various organs and specialized committees. This article follows the trajectory of the anti-mui tsai campaign in the interior of the Geneva-based organization. 

Author Biography

Magaly Rodríguez García, Research Foundation Flanders (fwo), Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Doctora en Historia (2008) por la Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Bruselas). Su investigación de tesis fue premiada con el Labor History Dissertation Prize 2008, otorgado por la revista Labor, y se publicó dos años más tarde en Peter Lang. A partir de octubre del 2009, trabaja en un proyecto de postdoctorado gracias al financiamiento otorgado por la Research Foundation Flanders (fwo). Su investigación se concentra en la Sociedad de Naciones, trata de personas y prostitución. En sus investigaciones ha trabajado en estrecha colaboración con miembros del International Institute of Social History y el archivo de la Sociedad de Naciones en Ginebra. Sus trabajos han sido publicados en: International Review of Social History, Le Mouvement Social, Revue belge de philologie et d’histoire y Peter Lang. Además de sus actividades académicas de investigación en la Vrije Universiteit Brussel, ha trabajado en: Vesalius College (2009-2010), la Universidad Católica de Lovaina (2010-2011), la Universidad de Gante (2012- 2013) y la Université Libre de Bruxelles (2013-2014).

References

Archivos de la Sociedad de Naciones (Ginebra)

Publicaciones de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo

Papers, actas de sesión y reportes de la Comisión Temporal sobre la Esclavitud (1924-1926), del Comité de Expertos en Esclavitud (1931-1934) y de la Comisión Consultiva de Especialistas en Materia de Esclavitud (1934-1939).

Papers, actas de sesión y reportes del Comité Consultivo para la Trata de Mujeres y Protección de Niños (1924-1925); de la Comisión de Protección a la Infancia y a la Juventud-Comité para la Trata de Mujeres y Niños (1925-1936) y del Comité Consultivo de Asuntos Sociales (1936-1939).

Artículos sobre sistema mui tsai en International Labour Review, 1924, 1934-1937.

Artículos sobre el sistema mui tsai en Industrial and Labour Information, 1929-1939.


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Published

2014-06-07