Safeguarding against Statelessness at Birth: International Law and Domestic Legal Frameworks of ASEAN States by Rodziana Mohamed Razali (Springer 2023). 262 Pages. Price $159.99. ISBN 9789811953705
Year: 2025
Type: book-review
Abstract: Are children adequately protected by law against statelessness at birth, and to what extent?This is the core question of Rodziana Mohamed Razali's in-depth legal analysis into the international and domestic law of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ('ASEAN').The ASEAN has 10 Member States: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. 1 This book provides a sweeping, detailed and ambitious summary of this region's legal framework as well as the historical underpinning of the legal protection from statelessness.It is done in a clear and easily digestible way.For anyone wanting an introduction to the international regime and the various, distinct nationality laws and practices in the ASEAN region, this is a must read.The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ('UNHCR') reported in 2015 that a child is born stateless every 10 minutes, which translates to 70,000 children a year -an estimate described as conservative given the known stateless population. 2 The global recognition of the need to protect children from statelessness is found in international legal instruments that enshrine the right to nationality, such as the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the
DOI: 10.35715/scr7001.119
Author: Jamie Chai Yun Liew
Language: English
Subfield: Health
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4413505702