Claiming Equal Citizenship

The Campaign for Arab Women’s Right to Nationality

Action Survey 2: How Do Nationality Laws Affect Children’s Education?

Filed under: Activities, Action Survey — WLP at 11:59 am on Tuesday, October 9, 2007

This is a time of year when many children are going back to school, flooding school hallways and classrooms. Education is an invaluable social service provided by the state. However, there are many children who are denied access to education based on whom their mothers choose to marry.

In Your Country, how is children’s education affected by their mother’s marriage to a non-national?

1. Is primary and secondary education provided by the state available to all children or only citizens?
a. all children
b. only citizens

If education is available only to children who are citizens:

2. Are children whose fathers marry a non-national able to access primary and secondary education provided by the state?
a. Yes
b. No

3. Are children whose mothers marry a non-national able to access primary and secondary education provided by the state?
a. Yes
b. No

Please use the comment form below to share your answers and state the country for which you are responding. If you would like to share additional links or references with everyone, please add them to your post.

Thank you!

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2 Comments »

Comment by FATIHA AZZABI

12 October 2007 @ 4:36 pm

I need to talk about my country, not for me but for a lot of young girls who continued to suffer.In Morroco poverty alleviation his high, but people affraid to talk, education is for riche people…..many part of country people dont have possibility to studied, no school, just in Casablanca , Rabat they have the best school for the best people, 45% Morroco children dont have possibilty to attend primary secondary school

Comment by Marion

30 October 2007 @ 2:38 pm

Hello,
Here is the status in France:
1. a.
2. a.
3. a.
Education is mandatory for all children 6-16 years of age and residents of France, whether they are nationals or not. This also follows from France ratifying the November 20, 1989 international convention on the rights of children.

There were issues a few years ago, though, where children and their parents (illegal immigrants) were arrested at the end of a school day by the police, who was using the national education’s search system typically reserved for missing or battered children. Given the public outcry, high-ranking politicians then promised not to make any further arrests at or near schools.

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