22 August 2022

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality

Opportunities:

Webinar: Mass Atrocities and Statelessness: Under-explored Connections?, 25 August 2022 [info]

CFP: Statelessness and Citizenship Review [info] [info]
- Contributions for a special issue sought from early career statelessness scholars, in particular members of the Global PhDs on Statelessness (GPS) network. Submit abstracts by 1 September 2022.

Call for participation: Consultation on the Nationality Rights Index for Southern Africa, 9 September 2022 
- Follow this link to provide input on Tanzania and this link for input on Zimbabwe.

Call for registration: 6th Online Course on Statelessness, 24 October-18 November 2022 [info]
- Register by 23 September 2022

Call for applications: Statelessness Intensive Course 2023, 15-21 February 2023 [info]
- Submission deadline is 30 September 2022.

Blog posts & press:

Asserting Statelessness: Using Archival History to Challenge State Discourse (CSS Blog, July 2022) [text]

The Campaign to End Statelessness: April-June 2022 Update (UNHCR, Aug. 2022) [text]

Children born in the largest refugee camp in the world teach us what being stateless means to them (ENS Blog, Aug. 2022) [text]
- Focuses on the Rohingya in Bangladesh.

Might a ‘victory for human rights’ in the Netherlands benefit stateless children in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): possible applications of Zhao v the Netherlands (ENS Blog, July 2022) [text]

Preventing and solving statelessness in European law (ENS Blog, July 2022) [text]

UNHCR applauds Liberia for removing gender discrimination from its nationality law (UNHCR, Aug. 2022) [text]

An update on barriers to citizenship facing stateless children in the UK (ENS Blog, July 2022) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Memorandum of the Establishment of the Eastern African Nationality Network, 11 May 2022 [text]
- See also related press release.

Resolving Existing Major Situations of Statelessness, Good Practice Papers: Action 1 (UNHCR, Aug. 2022) [text]

The State We’re in: Ending Sexism in Nationality Laws (Equality Now, July 2022) [access]
- Follow link for report and executive summary in multiple languages and for the Annex of Laws in English. See also related press release. Regional reports are also available for the Americas, Asia, MENA and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Statelessness and Citizenship Review, vol. 4, no. 1 (2022) [open access]
- Special issue on "Children and Statelessness."

"Ties that bind and unbind: charting the boundaries of European Union citizenship," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 5 Aug. 2022 [open access]

"'What about it is unclear? I mean I was born here': Ungeklärte Staatsangehörigkeit and the (re-)production of de facto statelessness in Germany," Citizenship Studies, Latest Articles, 26 July 2022 [open access]

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