Statelessness, human rights and gender : : irregular migrant workers from Burma in Thailand / / Lay Lee Tang.

• Superior document: Refugees and human rights ; v. 9
• Author: Tang, Lay Lee.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Refugees and human rights ; v. 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (301 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This book breaks from tradition in exploring the developing relationship between statelessness and migration. International lawyers, refugee and migrant worker advocates will be drawn to the argument that migration law is setting the parameters of the framework for international protection. Statelessness used to be associated with state succession, mass denationalisation and refugee flows in the twentieth century. However, the rise in irregular migration is producing new forms of statelessness. Neither customary international law, international conventions on statelessness, refugees and migrant workers nor general human rights instruments provide effective protection for these contemporary groups of stateless persons. Women and children are among the most unprotected. The discussion on the gendered construction of statelessness will interest those involved in gender studies. The analysis of the interface between citizenship, migration and other domestic laws and policies of Burma and Thailand will provoke discussion among human rights advocates working on these two countries. The book concludes that it is imperative to develop international law limits on state powers in immigration matters.

Table of Contents

Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Chapter one Statelessness and Migration -- Chapter two The International Law of Statelessness: Contemporary Issues -- Chapter three Stateless Persons, Refugees and Irregular Migrant Workers: Merging Categories of Unprotected Persons -- Chapter four Stateless Persons, Refugees and Irregular Migrant Workers: Protection and Human Rights -- Chapter five Gender Discrimination and Statelessness -- Chapter six Burma and Thailand: Interface Between Domestic and International Law -- Chapter seven Gendered Aspects of Statelessness and Irregular -- Migrant Workers from Burma in Thailand -- Chapter eight Conclusions -- Appendices -- Select Bibliography -- Index.