This research is ongoing. The final report will be posted upon completion.
UNHCR estimates there are 12 million stateless people worldwide, of which a large number are in Southeast Asia. Stateless populations in Southeast Asia face a number of protection risks including vulnerability to human trafficking. For that reason, PRM funded Tilburg University to research the impact of statelessness on hill tribe women in Thailand. In particular, the project will measure the impact of statelessness on the legal empowerment of women, through the use of quantitative and qualitative methods that have already proven successful in other humanitarian contexts. The research will be disseminated in order to inform future studies on the relationship between statelessness and legal empowerment. UNHCR has expressed interest in replicating this methodology in other countries with large stateless populations.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
The results of this research will be disseminated widely to global and regional stakeholders involved in preventing and responding to statelessness including relevant Thai Ministries, Thai research institutes, UNHCR, and local/international NGOs.