This site showcases findings from Birth Registration as Bordering Practice, a research and book project that examines global patterns of inequality in access to legal citizenship because of blocked access to birth certificates.
As governments and development practitioners work to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal 16.9 of legal identity for allby 2030, addressing intersecting forms of discrimination and migrant exclusion can help to close birth registration gaps for their babies and prevent child statelessness.
Typology of Birth Registration Bordering Practices
Borders are more than lines on a map. Bordering is an active process through which state (and some non-state) actors determine who belongs in a given territory.
Bordering practices can happen within birth registration when a state is unwilling to recognize and document a newborn, based on the parents’ status or identity. Examples from around the world are organized by type of bordering.