Birth Registration and Protection for Children of Transnational Labor Migrants in Indonesia |
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Authors: | Jessica Ball Leslie Butt Harriot Beazley |
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Affiliation: | 1. University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canadajball@uvic.ca;3. University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada;4. University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Australia |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACTPolicies 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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Keywords: | Indonesia birth registration civil registry statelessness migrant parents transnational labor migration child rights stay-behind children |
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