Children Without A State: A Global Human Rights Challange – Jacqueline Bhabha (Ed.)
Editor: Jacqueline Bhabha
Publisher: MIT Press
Print Length: 392 pages
Genre: Children & Childhood
Area: Bangladesh, Belgium, Cambodia, China, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Myanmar, Nepal, Palestine / Israel, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, The Netherlands, The United Kingdom (UK), The United States of America (USA),
People: Kashmiri, Malta, Palestinian / Falastini, Rohingya
Topic: Citizenship, Development, History, Human Rights, Identity, Migrants, Policy & Practice, Resilience, Statelessness, Vulnerability
Children are among the most vulnerable citizens of the world, with a special need for the protections, rights, and services offered by states. And yet children are particularly at risk from statelessness. Thirty-six percent of all births in the world are not registered, leaving more than forty-eight million children under the age of five with no legal identity and no formal claim on any state. Millions of other children are born stateless or become undocumented as a result of migration. Children Without a State is the first book to examine how statelessness affects children throughout the world, examining this largely unexplored problem from a human rights perspective.
The human rights repercussions explored range from dramatic abuses (detention and deportation) to social marginalization (lack of access to education and health care). The book provides a variety of examples, including chapters on Palestinian children in Israel, undocumented young people seeking higher education in the United States, unaccompanied child migrants in Spain, Roma children in Italy, irregular internal child migrants in China, and children in mixed legal/illegal families in the United States.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Mary Robinson
Preface
1 From Citizen to Migrant: The Scope of Child Statelessness in the Twenty-First Century – Jacqueline Bhabha
I Legal Statelessness
2 Neither Seen nor Heard: Compound Deprivation among Stateless Children
Kashmiris in the United Kingdom, Slovenia, Banyamulenge in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rohingya in Myanmar and
Bangladesh – Brad K. Blitz
3 Volatile Citizenship or Statelessness? Citizen Children of Palestinian Descent and the Loss of Nationality in IsraelPalestinian citizens in Israel – Christina O. Alfi rev
4 Human Rights and Citizenship: The Need for Better Data and What to Do about It The contribution of statistical data to assess the scope of statelessness – Bela Hovy
II De Facto Statelessness
5 Undocumented Children in Europe: Ignored Victims of Immigration
Restrictions A European overview of Belgium, France, Hungary, Italy, Malta,
the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom – Luca Bicocchi
6 Realizing the Rights of Undocumented Children in Europe
Europe, specifically Ireland – Jyothi Kanics
7 Unaccompanied and Separated Children in Spain: A Policy of
Institutional Mistreatment Unaccompanied and separated child migrants in Spain – Daniel Senovilla Hern á ndez
8 Undocumented Migrant and Roma Children in Italy: Between
Rights Protection and Control
Roma and migrant children in Italy – Elena Rozzi
9 Undocumented Students, College Education, and Life
Beyond Undocumented college students in the United States – Stephen H. Legomsky
10 Clashing Values and Cross Purposes: Immigration Law ’ s
Marginalization of Children and Families Children in mixed status families in the United States – David B. Thronson
11 Birthright Citizenship: The Vulnerability and Resilience of an
American Constitutional Principle
Statelessness in U.S. history, with reference to migrant children of
citizen parents – Linda K. Kerber
III Effective Statelessness
12 China: Ensuring Equal Access to Education and Health Care for
Children of Internal Migrants Internal migration in China – Kirsten Di Martino
13 To Register or Not to Register? Legal Identity, Birth Registration,
and Inclusive Development Legal identity in Nepal, Cambodia, and Bangladesh – Caroline Vandenabeele
14 Children with a (Local) State: Identity Registration at Birth in
English History since 1538 Identity registration in England since the sixteenth century – Simon Szreter
Suggested Reading
About the Contributors
Index
Jacqueline Bhabha is FXB Director of Research, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, and an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She received a first class honors degree and an M.Sc. from Oxford University, and a J.D. from the College of Law in London.
Source: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/profile/jacqueline-bhabha/
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