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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.

Title Children without a state : a global human rights challenge / edited by Jacqueline Bhabha.
Publisher Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press
Creation Date 2011
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content 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
Extent 1 online resource (393 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2011
National Library system number 997010717536305171
MARC RECORDS
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