Statelessness, Human Rights and Gender : Irregular Migrant Workers from Burma in Thailand.
This book explores the developing relationship between statelessness and migration. Migration law is setting the new parameters for international protection. Irregular migration is producing new forms of statelessness. International conventions on statelessness, refugees and migrant workers and inte...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden :
BRILL,
2005.
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| Series: | Refugees and human rights ;
v. 9. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | This book explores the developing relationship between statelessness and migration. Migration law is setting the new parameters for international protection. Irregular migration is producing new forms of statelessness. International conventions on statelessness, refugees and migrant workers and international human rights instruments do not provide effective protection for these contemporary groups of stateless persons. The case study of Burmese irregular migrant workers in Thailand demonstrate that women and children are among the most unprotected because of the gendered construction of statel. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (301 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781433705076 1433705079 |