Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality

Events & opportunities:

Symposium: Detention or Protection? Vulnerable and Stateless People in Detention, Amsterdam, 25 April 2016 [info]

Seminar: Statelessness Determination Procedures: Policy Options, Practical Experiences and Challenges, Dublin, 5 May 2016 [info]

Meeting: #StatelessKids Youth Congress 2016, Brussels, 11-13 July 2016 [info]
- Deadline for applications is 15 May 2016.

CFP: MIPJ: Media, Information, International Relations and Humanitarian Affairs [info]
- Contributions sought that focus on refugees, IDPs or stateless people. Submission deadline is 1 June 2016.

Publications:

Change is in the Air: Statelessness and Citizenship in Canada (ENS Blog, April 2016) [text]

The Eligibility for Refugees to Acquire Ugandan Citizenship (CRAI Blog, March 2016) [text]

Is Latvia Condemning Older Generations to Non-citizenship? (ENS Blog, March 2016) [text]

Observations by the Representative Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Kyrgyz Republic on the Draft Law on Amendments to Certain Legal Acts of Kyrgyz Republic ("Deprivation of Nationality as a Measure of Counteraction to Terrorist Activities") (UNHCR, March 2016) [text]

"The Origins of UNHCR’s Global Mandate on Statelessness," International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 28, no. 1 (March 2016) [abstract]

Peoples without a State: Locations and Causes of Statelessness (US Dept. of State, March 2016) [map via ReliefWeb]

"Stateless Persons and the Question of Rights," Global Policy, vol. 7, no. 1 (Feb. 2016) [free full-text]

Statelessness and Nationality: The Case of Non-Citizens in Latvia, Master's thesis (Uppsala Univ., Spring 2015) [text]

"Strengthening the Protection of Stateless Persons from Arbitrary Detention in Immigration Control Proceedings," European Journal on Migration and Law, vol. 17, nos. 2-3 (2015) [full-text via Academia.edu]

UNHCR Observations on the Modalities Surrounding the Citizenship Test (Medborgerskabsprøven) and the Naturalization Test (Indfødsretsprøven) (UNHCR, Feb. 2016) [text]

"Who Belongs? Statelessness and Nationality in West Africa," Migration Information Source, 7 April 2016 [text]

Workshop on Researching Statelessness and Citizenship in Asia and the Pacific, Melbourne, 27-29 Jan. 2016: Summary Report [text via Refworld]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Statelessness (15 March 2016)

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