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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789569203321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass. : , : MIT Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-283-11905-6

9786613119056

0-262-29543-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (393 p.)

Disciplina

323.3/2912

Soggetti

Immigrant children - Civil rights

Immigrant children - Legal status, laws, etc

Human rights

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.