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5. Population Mobility (Internal and International Migration, including Refugees) and Urbanization
Abstract
A large number of poor households in India undertake temporary rural to urban migration along with their children
to find work in cities especially in informal sectors such as construction. The consequences of migration on these
children remain largely understudied. Thus, the main aim of the paper was to understand the impact of migration
on education, nutrition and health status of children of migrant construction workers across six cities of India. The
study used data from the survey ‘Vulnerable Children: A Study of Children of Migrant Construction Workers’
conducted in six Indian cities by DBRC (2015-17). Results from bi-variate and multivariate analyses show that
frequent migration and poor financial status of households have a significant effect on non-enrollment and irregular
attendance of children in schools. Nutritional and health status of children varied across cities and was found to
have direct association with background characteristics. Living conditions in construction sites such as poorly
ventilated homes played a key role in determining the health status of children. It is thus necessary that policy
makers try to develop initiatives to implement and enforce the rights of migrant workers and their children with
respect to their health, education and overall well being.
588 Cross-border migrant children and their accesses to education and health
insurance in Thailand
Chalermpol Chamchan, Kanya Apipornchaisakul
Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Nakhonprathom, Thailand
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5. Population Mobility (Internal and International Migration, including Refugees) and Urbanization
Abstract
This study aimed to explore and examine factors associated with accesses to education and health insurance among
children (0-14) of cross-border migrant families in Thailand. A quantitative field survey was conducted in Mae Sot
District, Tak province in 2018-19 with purposively selected 402 migrant families covering totally 803 migrant
children (0-14). The analyses found that, of the total migrant children, about three-quarters were born in Thailand
of which around 73.7 percent was registered the birth. After age 15, about 71.5 percent of the children was planned
by the family to be living in Thailand. Regarding to education, younger migrant children at the present seemed
better accessing to education than the elder ones. Proportion of the younger children studying in Thai schools as
compared to NGO’s learning centers was found larger. Regarding to health insurance, a large number was not
covered by any. In terms of accessibility to Thai education and health insurance , 4 factors that were significantly
influencing included having birth registration, future plan of the family for the child (whether to be in Thailand after
age 15), perception of the caretaker about child’s rights to education and health insurance, and Thai language
ability of the caretaker.
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