Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies
Volume 15, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 305-325

Birth Registration and Protection for Children of Transnational Labor Migrants in Indonesia (Article)

Ball J.* , Butt L. , Beazley H.
  • a University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
  • b University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
  • c University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Australia

Abstract

Policies on transnational labor migration do not consider workers' needs as parents or the rights and welfare of their children, including a child's right to an official identity through birth registration. A study of birth-registration decision making by migrant parents in Lombok, Indonesia underscored the need for targeted responses to uniquely challenging circumstances and priorities of migrant parents. Free birth registration through birthing and health centers and village-level leaders can overcome problems of decentralized implementation of national strategies and an exploitive registration brokerage industry, mitigating risks of de facto statelessness for children and a multigenerational pattern of undocumented and unsafe migration. © 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Author Keywords

transnational labor migration stay-behind children Indonesia Migrant parents birth registration civil registry statelessness Child rights

Index Keywords

labor migration immigration policy Lombok Lesser Sunda Islands Indonesia Child Welfare child care West Nusa Tenggara
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85028661697&doi=10.1080%2f15562948.2017.1316533&partnerID=40&md5=76cd50baf75cd5ab3b0d8775d18a0a40
DOI: 10.1080/15562948.2017.1316533
ISSN: 15562948
Cited by: 5
Original Language: English