Remember the Thailand cave rescue? Three players and the team coach were legally 'stateless' at the time, and then swiftly granted citizenship. But hundreds of thousands just like them continue to suffer Opinion | sanitsuda
world-grippingDuring the three-week attempt to save 12 boys of the Wild Boar soccer team and their coach, it was revealed that three boys and the coach were stateless people. Under the global spotlight, they were granted Thai citizenship a few months after the rescue. Such speediness is unprecedented.
To file for nationality, each group is required to meet different rigid requirements. For example, they need official documents and credible witnesses to prove they were born in Thailand as well as education certificates to prove their long residence — and lots of patience to navigate the red tape and state inertia.
Consequently, undocumented hill tribes people, immigrants, and their children suddenly became stateless and stigmatised as national security threats. Combined with ultra-nationalism which creates a false belief about the country’s homogeneity and purity of the Thai race, the public comes to see stateless people and minority groups as “outsiders” who should not be allowed the same rights as Thais.
Still, it remains an uphill task for people without power and access to state machinery to get official documents to prove their eligible status. And despite complete documents, many still hit a brick wall when local officials refuse to believe the evidence and keep the citizenship applications on the backburner.
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