Manila, Philippines | 18-19 November 2011 documentation, and several States allow non-nationals to receive primary education in the public system. Participants from Thailand elaborated that its universal education policy was adopted in 2005 and allows all children in the country to enrol in public primary and secondary schools free of charge. Coupled with Thailand’s establishment of universal birth registration, these policies have increased the protection offered to children against statelessness and the consequences of statelessness. The linkage between statelessness and other issues The Workshop identified that statelessness is a crosscutting issue. Statelessness was seen as a women’s issue, a children’s issue, a migration issue, a human trafficking issue and a community development issue. It could also engage other concerns such as national security. The Workshop particularly discussed the two related issues of labour migration and trafficking. The session on the linkage of statelessness and other issues was chaired by the Representative of Myanmar to AICHR (pictured at centre). © UNHCR/B. Abante Migration Migration can create the risk of statelessness resulting from the fact that nationals are residing in a country that is not the country of their nationality. The nationality laws of some States terminate nationality after an extended residence abroad, while other States 17