You-Me-We-Us: Who are the G kids?
Meet yet another group of stateless people who have lived in Thailand all their lives.
Children in the G category are children who have come to Thailand with their parents from a neighboring country because of war or an economic crisis and to find work here. Some families cannot return to their home country and they do not have a personal card or number or legal status.
When those children go to school, they are registered with a G code instead of the usual 13-digit national personal number, which means that no funds can be released for their studies. In 2016, Thailand had 78.893 children with a G code.
With such a G code, that child has no right to travel, no right to care, no right to a university education and no access to legal aid. Additional problems are the lack of an ID card, they do not receive a school diploma, are bullied and all of this has an uncertain future. To date, only a small group of 4 percent of all cases have succeeded in solving these problems.
Thailand has legislation to address these issues such as the Civil Registration Act but has slowed down for vague and obscure reasons. Nevertheless, Thailand has signed the 'Convention on the Right of the Child' on 12/2/1992, which creates an obligation to guarantee equal rights to all children with regard to the right to life, right to protection, right to education and right to participation in social life.
This is a story from the workshops 'Creative and Strategic Communication for Sustainability' organized by the UNDP and the organization Realframe with the support of the EU.
Source: https://you-me-we-us.com Translation and editing Erik Kuijpers.
Design: Suchart Ingtha.
'I was born in the border area and immediately had a problem with nationality. Thanks to the help of NGOs, I now have an identity card. It inspires me to help other people in need and that is why I studied immigration law. I joined UNDP Youth colab 2019 with friends and we won 3rd prize.
I am co-founder of the media platform Titang, which provides local help to stateless people and shares knowledge about the application for citizenship with them.'
Who are the Tai Yai Chinese?
They are called Shan people, Tai Yai, 'Big Tai', (ไทใหญ่). The Tai-Shan peoples come from the Yunnan region of China and have spread throughout the region over the centuries. The Tai Yai live in Thailand mainly in the north of the country. Many of them are among the more than 150.000 Myanmar refugees who live partly in camps.
As far as I know, yaba that is traded in Thailand comes from the Shan area, which raises the question of whether the parents fled to Thailand precisely because they have/had something to do with this trade and that is why the Thai government is not so interested in it. has in this group.
Johnny BG, Myanmar is the number 1 producer of ice and number 2 of heroin (after Afghanistan) and all combat groups plus the military use the proceeds of that junk. I have heard that production continues at full speed during today's acts of war, only transport to Myanmar ports is halted due to roadblocks. Laos, Thailand and Vietnam are now the transit countries.
Thailand does not treat any refugee fellow human beings decently (you remember the Uyghurs) and has done so for decades. There is now a ten-year plan and this You-Me-We-Us website reminds you of that, also in the coming 20+ articles….
That is not an answer to my question that perhaps the children are being punished?
Read in the news today that the import of cocaine in Europe is handled via the Netherlands and Belgium, this does not mean that 17 million Dutch people are involved in this, but only a small group, maybe less than 100 people, who knows. That does not make our nationality suspicious for the Thai authorities as drug smugglers and money launderers (pensioners who spend their money in Thailand). Come on, mention facts and studies and interviews, but don't post claims without substantiation and put away population group (s).
Read the attached link from 2004 about the Shan, war and expulsion by the Burmese authorities and more worth reading. Read in Wikipedia that the Shan were the founders of Chiang Mai (Lanna) and Autthaya. And that the Shan in Burma are the largest minority group, 5 to 6 million people and that their language belongs to the same language group as Thai. And that you are only a refugee in Thailand if you cross the border fighting, in other words ordinary citizens are not eligible to be certified as a refugee in Thailand.
https://reliefweb.int/report/thailand/shan-thailand-case-protection-and-assistance-failure
Reading your comments, Johnny, I wonder if you are an independent thinker or a mouthpiece for the Thai government.
Dear Tina,
I already suspected this was going to be said at some point, but I can assure you that I speak from my own experiences and I am certainly not a troll.
Once in my twenties I came here 30 years ago and have experienced a lot and mostly in the world that is beyond reproach here.
What I myself have seen and experienced with various families, I agree with many other people that you should see the positive in a difficult time and you do that with rustling. Losers are always there and that's the lesson you learn in school.
A doctor knows better than anyone that compassion is not the solution to a problem. It is what it is and be that
Sure, Johnny, compassion alone won't solve problems. But you don't solve problems without compassion. Compassion is always needed. From experience, living in the north, I have a great deal of compassion for the many stateless people there, even if they had been drug traffickers.
While reading it I was reminded of a report from a number of years ago on, I think Prachatai. In the border area there are more families, children, without real status. Their freedom of travel is very limited, permission is required to travel to other provinces, and in principle they are not entitled to all kinds of rights. This uncertainty and disadvantage compared to people with Thai nationality or other 100% legal status does not make it easy for these people. But a kind of “general pardon” might also be a dirty word in Thailand? Refugees, illegal immigrants and people who have fallen through the cracks are of little use to the authorities. Sad.