03 March 2021

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality

Opportunities:

Survey: 2021 Appeal for information: COVID-19 and Statelessness [access]
- Please submit responses by 15 March 2021.

Call for applications: ISI Statelessness Summer Course, 12-23 July 2021 [info]
- Apply by 11 April 2021.

Call for applications: 1st Online Course on Statelessness, 21 June-16 July 2021 [info]
- Apply by 17 May 2021.

Blog posts:

Critical sociolinguistic ethnography as a lens to statelessness: a case from the Bidoon community in Kuwait (Critical Statelessness Studies Blog, 2021) [text]

Human and child rights advocates benefit from online course on ending child statelessness (UNHCR, Feb. 2021) [text]

Iceland’s accession to UN Statelessness Conventions reminds us how much more still needs to be done across Europe (ENS Blog, Feb. 2021) [text]

In Shamima Begum Case, UK Supreme Court Dismisses Rights and Overlooks Potential Victimhood (Just Security Blog, Feb. 2021) [text]

Protecting the Rights of the Rightless: The UN Human Rights Committee and the Right to Acquire a Nationality under International Law (EJIL: Talk Blog, Feb. 2021) [text]

Representing stateless people in the UK: a practitioner’s view (ENS Blog, Feb. 2021) [text]
- See also related ENS blog post.

Reports & journal articles:

"Acquis or not acquis: statelessness in the context of forced migration," DPCE Online, no. 4/2020 [full-text]

EU law and the mutual recognition of parenthood between Member States: the case of V.M.A. v Stolichna Obsthina (Globalcit, Jan. 2021) [text]
- See also related ENS blog post.

The human rights of women in Syria: Between discriminatory law, patriarchal culture, and the exclusionary politics of the regime (Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Feb. 2021) [access via ReliefWeb]
- Follow link for texts in English and Arabic.

International Recommendations on Statelessness Statistics (IROSS): IROSS Challenges, Opportunities and Progress Paper (Expert Group on Refugee and Internally Displaced Persons Statistics, Feb. 2021) [access via side event concept note]

Marginalised and Impoverished in Assam: A Study into the Exclusion of Those at Risk of Statelessness in COVID-19 Responses and Social Security Provisions (Right to Nationality & Citizenship Network, Jan. 2021) [access]
- See also video recording of related webinar.

"A New Law on Earth": Hannah Arendt and the Vision for a Positive Legal Framework to Guarantee the Right to Have Rights (SSRN, Feb. 2021) [text]
- Focuses on the Rohingya.

"Statelessness as Rhetoric: The Case for Revisioning Statelessness in Our Statist World," Berkeley Journal of International Law, vol. 38, no. 2 (2020) [full-text]

"The Sustainable Development Goals and ‘legal identity for all’: ‘First, do no harm’," World Development, vol. 139 (March 2021) [preprint]

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