Description:
Abstract:
"An estimated twelve million people worldwide are stateless, or living without the legal
bond of citizenship or nationality with any state, and consequently face barriers to
employment, property ownership, education, health care, customary legal rights, and
national and international protection. More than one-quarter of the world?s stateless
people live in Thailand. This feminist ethnography explores the impact of statelessness
on the everyday lives of Burmese women political exiles living in Thailand through the
paradigm of human security and its six indicators: food, economic, personal, political,
health, and community security. The research reveals that exclusion from national and
international legal protections creates pervasive and profound political and personal
insecurity due to violence and harassment from state and non-state actors. Strong
networks, however, between exiled activists and their organizations provide community
security, through which stateless women may access various levels of food, economic,
and health security. Using the human security paradigm as a metric, this research
identifies acute barriers to Burmese stateless women exiles? experiences and expectations
of well-being, therefore illustrating the potential of human security as a measurement by
which conflict resolution scholars and practitioners may describe and evaluate their work
in the context of positive peace."
Source/publisher:
Portland University (MS thesis)
Date of Publication:
2012-00-00
Date of entry:
2013-10-28
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- Individual Documents
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Language:
English
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