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Title Children without a state : a global human rights challenge / edited by Jacqueline Bhabha
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2011
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 376 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents From citizen to migrant : the scope of child statelessness in the twenty-first century / Jacqueline Bhabha -- Neither seen nor heard : compound deprivation among stateless children / Brad K. Blitz -- Volatile citizenship or statelessness? Citizen children of Palestinian descent and the loss of nationality in Israel / Christina O. Alfirev -- Human rights and citizenship : the need for better data and what to do about it / Bela Hovy -- Undocumented children in Europe : ignored victims of immigration restrictions / Luca Bicocchi -- Realizing the rights of undocumented children in Europe / Jyothi Kanics -- Unaccompanied and separated children in Spain : a policy of institutional mistreatment / Daniel Senovilla Hernández -- Undocumented migrant and Roma children in Italy : between rights protection and control / Elena Rozzi -- Undocumented students, college education, and life beyond / Stephen H. Legomsky -- Clashing values and cross purposes : immigration law's marginalization of children and families / David B. Thronson -- Birthright citizenship : the vulnerability and resilience of an American constitutional principle / Linda K. Kerber -- China : ensuring equal access to education and health care for children of internal migrants / Kirsten Di Martino -- To register or not to register? Legal identity, birth registration, and inclusive development / Caroline Vandenabeele -- Children with a (local) state : identity registration at birth in English history since 1538 / Simon Szreter
Summary This text identifies three contemporary manifestations of stateless: legal statelessness, de facto statelessness and effective statelessness. The book provides a variety of examples, including chapters on Palestinian children in Israel including undocumented young people seeking higher education in the United States
Analysis SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Immigrant children -- Civil rights
Immigrant children -- Legal status, laws, etc
Human rights.
Human Rights
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights.
Human rights
Flyktingbarn.
Barns rättigheter.
Flyktingbarn -- juridik och lagstiftning.
Flyktingbarn -- medborgerliga fri- och rättigheter.
Statslösa.
Form Electronic book
Author Bhabha, Jacqueline, editor
ISBN 9780262295437
0262295431
1283119056
9781283119054
0262015277
9780262015271
9786613119056
6613119059