Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
Volume 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 405-432

From entitlement to experience: Access to education for children of migrant workers from Burma (Article)

Austin M.*
  • a University of London, United Kingdom

Abstract

This article explores the impact of migrant worker registration on access to primary education for the children of Burmese migrants living in Thailand. The first section examines the basis in domestic and international law for migrant children's claim to educational entitlement and questions whether registration affects their claim. This leads to an analysis of NGO and other field-based reports of children and families' lived experience which explores how registration interacts with other intersecting forms of discrimination and disadvantage. The final section proposes a framework for evaluating the impact of Thailand's current Nationality Verification scheme from a children's rights perspective.

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Index Keywords

immigration policy Myanmar international law nongovernmental organization Thailand migrant worker

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DOI: 10.1177/011719681202100307
ISSN: 01171968
Original Language: English