Children without a state : a global human rights challenge / edited by Jacqueline Bhabha.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bhabha, Jacqueline, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrant children--Civil rights.

Immigrant children.

Immigrant children--Legal status, laws, etc.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 From Citizen to Migrant; I Legal Statelessness; 2 Neither Seen nor Heard; 3 Volatile Citizenship or Statelessness?; 4 Human Rights and Citizenship; II De Facto Statelessness; 5 Undocumented Children in Europe; 6 Realizing the Rights of Undocumented Children in Europe; 7 Unaccompanied and Separated Children in Spain; 8 Undocumented Migrant and Roma Children in Italy; 9 Undocumented Students, College Education, and Life Beyond; 10 Clashing Values and Cross Purposes; 11 Birthright Citizenship; III Effective Statelessness; 12 China

13 To Register or Not to Register?14 Children with a (Local) State; Suggested Reading; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9786613119056

9781283119054

1283119056

9780262295437

0262295431

OCLC:

727944839