06 September 2021

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality

Opportunities:

Roundtable: 60 years on: The 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, 16 September 2021 [info]

Seminar: Citizenship Stripping in the UK: the Slippery Slope to Statelessness, 20 September 2021 [info]

Registration: Statelessness and the Right to a Nationality in Europe: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities - International Conference and Technical Meeting of Experts, 23-24 September 2021 [info]
- The registration form is available here. (Note that the Technical Meeting is by invitation only.)

Call for applications: Statelessness Intensive Course, Online, 16-22 February 2022 [info]
- Apply by 30 September 2021.

Blog posts & press:

Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019: The Pernicious Outcomes of the Altering Equation of Citizenship in India (Conflict, Justice, Decolonization: Critical Studies of Inter-Asian Societies, July 2021) [text]

Decentralising Solutions to Statelessness (Critical Statelessness Studies Blog, Aug. 2021) [text]

On Statelessness and Hypervisibility (Critical Statelessness Studies Blog, July 2021) [text]

New book:

Statelessness, Governance, and the Problem of Citizenship, Manchester Univ. Press, Sept. 2021 [info]
- This book "breaks from tradition by relocating the 'problem' to be addressed from one of statelessness to one of citizenship. It problematises the governance of citizenship - and the use of citizenship as a governance tool - and traces the 'problem of citizenship' from global and regional governance mechanisms to national and even individual levels. With contributions from activists, affected persons, artists, lawyers, academics, and national and international policy experts, this volume rejects the idea that statelessness and stateless persons are a problem. It argues that the reality of statelessness helps to uncover a more fundamental challenge: the problem of citizenship."

Reports & journal articles:

Bangladesh: Impact of the suspension of birth registration on the host community in Cox’s Bazar (ACAPS, Aug. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Consideraciones sobre avances y barreras de acceso a la nacionalidad colombiana para la población proveniente de Venezuela (Danish Refugee Council, July 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Country Overviews in Together We Can: The COVID-19 Impact on Stateless People and a Roadmap for Change (COVID-19 Emergency Statelessness Fund Consortium, 2021) [access]
- Ten standalone profiles are now available for Bangladesh, Central Asia, Dominican Rep., India, Kenya, Malaysia, Montenegro, Nepal, North Macedonia, and Rohingya in Refugee Situations. Follow the link to find them in the ISI "resources" collection.

Displacement, Statelessness and Solutions: A Study on Protracted Refugee Situations in the Great Lakes (ICGLR & UNHCR  , July 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also French version.

"Scoping the impact of COVID-19 on the nexus of statelessness and health in Council of Europe member states," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 4 (2021) [open access]

Statelessness, UN Doc. No. EC/72/SC/CRP.11, 81st Meeting of the EXCOM Standing Committee, 14 June 2021 [text]
- See also related NGO statement.

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