{"id":23151,"date":"2019-07-08T09:22:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T09:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=23151"},"modified":"2019-07-08T19:24:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T19:24:27","slug":"migrant-children-face-high-risk-of-statelessness-in-sa-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/migrant-children-face-high-risk-of-statelessness-in-sa-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrant children face high risk of statelessness in SA &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the report, which included more than 300 foreign national children, 40% of children have no evidence of their nationality.<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">Kaylynn\u00a0Palm <abbr class=\"timeago\" title=\"14 hours ago\"><\/abbr><\/div>\n<p>CAPE TOWN \u2013 Close to 40% of foreign children entering South Africa are at risk of statelessness and have no documents at all.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to a report published by the <a href=\"https:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2019\/05\/20\/scalabrini-heads-back-to-court-over-closure-of-ct-refugee-reception-office\">Scalabrini Centre<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/ewn.co.za\/Topic\/International-Organisation-for-Migration\">International Organisation for Migration<\/a> on foreign children migrating to South Africa. They surveyed every known case at children&#8217;s homes in the Western Cape, Limpopo and Gauteng over the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>Statelessness means they are not considered as nationals by any state under that country&#8217;s law.<\/p>\n<p>Scalabrini\u2019s Lotte Manicom said the children faced a high risk of statelessness. At least 70% of children had spent at least five years in South Africa and came from 15 different African countries including Zimbabwe, the DRC and Burundi.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2019\/07\/08\/migrant-children-face-high-risk-of-statelessness-in-sa-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2019\/07\/08\/migrant-children-face-high-risk-of-statelessness-in-sa-report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the report, which included more than 300 foreign national children, 40% of children have no evidence of their nationality. Kaylynn\u00a0Palm CAPE TOWN \u2013 Close to 40% of foreign children entering South Africa are at risk of statelessness and have no documents at all. This is according to a report published by the Scalabrini [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-660","item-theme-acquisition-by-children","item-theme-birth-registration","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23152,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23151\/revisions\/23152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}