Leslie Butt talks with the RING about the risks for children who are stateless.

September 2015

The Ring talks with Dr. Leslie Butt about the research she is involved with on Children without states.  A two-year pilot study by Dr. Leslie Butt (Centre for Asia-Pacific
Initiatives, Dept. of Anthropology) and Dr. Jessica Ball (School of Child and Youth Care), and collaborator Dr. Harriot Beazley (Human Geography, at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia),
closely explores the risks of statelessness and other impacts of undocumented parent migration in Southeast Asia on the children who are either left behind, carried along, or born while mothers are working
overseas.