Digitalisation of birth registration system in Malaysia: Boon or bane for the hard-to-reach and marginalised?
Access to birth registration among the refugees, migrants, and undocumented or stateless individuals in Sabah and Peninsular Malaysia remains hindered largely due to their lack of legal status. This study identifies the barriers to birth registration faced by these communities, including during the...
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| description | Access to birth registration among the refugees, migrants, and undocumented or stateless individuals in Sabah and Peninsular Malaysia remains hindered largely due to their lack of legal status. This study identifies the barriers to birth registration faced by these communities, including during the COVID-19 pandemic, and explores the extent to which digital technologies may overcome or amplify these barriers. Findings are reported from a review of literature, websites, and media articles and semi-structured interviews with community-based organisations and community leaders representing the communities. The themes for the questions were structured based on Plan International's (2015) Step-by-step Guide for Identifying and Addressing the Risks to Children in Digitised birth registration systems. We identified that the digitalisation of birth registration poses more risks of exclusion than benefits to the marginalised communities without a secure and inclusive operating environment. Subject to an inequality assessment to evaluate and address the existing inequalities, a hybrid system that factors in the role of citizen facilitation hubs would be ideal for ensuring no one gets “left behind”. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ade008347044406f84e42097b38f1be72022-12-22T04:19:55ZengElsevierJournal of Migration and Health2666-62352022-01-016100137Digitalisation of birth registration system in Malaysia: Boon or bane for the hard-to-reach and marginalised?Rodziana Mohamed Razali0Tamara Joan Duraisingam1Nessa Ni Xuan Lee2Faculty of Syariah and Law, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Nilai, Malaysia; Corresponding author.Faculty of Business & Law, Taylor's University, Subang Jaya, MalaysiaSchool of Law, University of Leeds, Leeds, United KingdomAccess to birth registration among the refugees, migrants, and undocumented or stateless individuals in Sabah and Peninsular Malaysia remains hindered largely due to their lack of legal status. This study identifies the barriers to birth registration faced by these communities, including during the COVID-19 pandemic, and explores the extent to which digital technologies may overcome or amplify these barriers. Findings are reported from a review of literature, websites, and media articles and semi-structured interviews with community-based organisations and community leaders representing the communities. The themes for the questions were structured based on Plan International's (2015) Step-by-step Guide for Identifying and Addressing the Risks to Children in Digitised birth registration systems. We identified that the digitalisation of birth registration poses more risks of exclusion than benefits to the marginalised communities without a secure and inclusive operating environment. Subject to an inequality assessment to evaluate and address the existing inequalities, a hybrid system that factors in the role of citizen facilitation hubs would be ideal for ensuring no one gets “left behind”.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666623522000605Birth registrationCOVID-19DigitalisationLegal identityMigrantsRefugees |
| spellingShingle | Rodziana Mohamed Razali Tamara Joan Duraisingam Nessa Ni Xuan Lee Digitalisation of birth registration system in Malaysia: Boon or bane for the hard-to-reach and marginalised? Journal of Migration and Health Birth registration COVID-19 Digitalisation Legal identity Migrants Refugees |
| title | Digitalisation of birth registration system in Malaysia: Boon or bane for the hard-to-reach and marginalised? |
| title_full | Digitalisation of birth registration system in Malaysia: Boon or bane for the hard-to-reach and marginalised? |
| title_fullStr | Digitalisation of birth registration system in Malaysia: Boon or bane for the hard-to-reach and marginalised? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Digitalisation of birth registration system in Malaysia: Boon or bane for the hard-to-reach and marginalised? |
| title_short | Digitalisation of birth registration system in Malaysia: Boon or bane for the hard-to-reach and marginalised? |
| title_sort | digitalisation of birth registration system in malaysia boon or bane for the hard to reach and marginalised |
| topic | Birth registration COVID-19 Digitalisation Legal identity Migrants Refugees |
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