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

Jessica Ball; Leslie Butt; Harriot Beazley

doi:10.1080/15562948.2017.1316533

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

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

Jessica Ball, Leslie Butt and Harriot Beazley

Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Vol.15(3), pp.305-325

2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2017.1316533

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Indonesia

birth registration

civil registry

statelessness

migrant parents

transnational labor migration

child rights

stay-behind children

UniSC Diversity Area - Cultural and Linguistic Diversity

UniSC Diversity Area - Life Stages

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.

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Title: Birth Registration and Protection for Children of Transnational Labor Migrants in Indonesia
Authors: Jessica Ball (Author) - University of Victoria, Canada
Leslie Butt (Author) - University of Victoria, Canada
Harriot Beazley (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Publication details: Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Vol.15(3), pp.305-325
Publisher: Routledge
Date published: 2017
DOI: 10.1080/15562948.2017.1316533
ISSN: 1556-2948
Organisation Unit: Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450545502621
Output Type: Journal article

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