04 April 2022

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality

Opportunity:

Call for applications: 4th Online Course on Statelessness (Arabic), 6 June–1 July 2022 [info]
- Apply by 6 May 2022.

Blog posts & press:

As Parenting Changes, So Should Citizenship: Outdated Nationality Laws Risk Leaving Some Children Stateless (Human Rights Watch, Feb. 2022) [text]

Assisting stateless people trapped in Ukraine: report from the ground (ENS Blog, March 2022) [text]

The Austrian naturalisation procedure – disproportionate and in violation of international law (ENS Blog, March 2022) [text]

Can international law offer protection to those at risk of climatic statelessness? (ENS Blog, Feb. 2022) [text]

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and statelessness on Roma women and girls (ENS Blog, March 2022) [text]

Interview with Gillian Triggs, United Nations Assistant High Commissioner for Refugees (ENS, March 2022) [text]

UNHCR lauds Philippines’ accession to 1961 statelessness convention (UNHCR, March 2022) [text]
- Note: Here is a recent infographic displaying states party to the Statelessness Conventions.

Reports & journal articles:

Background Note on Gender Equality, Nationality Laws and Statelessness 2022 (UNHCR, March 2022) [text]

"'Bidoons': A Statelessness Plight in Kuwait," Journal of Legal and Economic Studies, vol. 8, no. 1 (March 2022) [full-text]
- Note: The text of this article is in English.

Commentary to the Principles on Deprivation of Nationality as a National Security Measure (Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, March 2022) [text]

Instrumentalising Citizenship in the Fight Against Terrorism: A Global Comparative Analysis of Legislation on Deprivation of Nationality as a Security Measure (Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion & GLOBALCIT, March 2022) [text]
- See also related blog post.

"The invisibility of the invisible lives: Being stateless in Thailand in times of the COVID-19 pandemic," Routed Magazine, no. 19 (Feb. 2022) [text]

"Manufacturing Statelessness," American Journal of International Law, vol. 116, no. 2 (April 2022) [open access]

Stateless people and people at risk of statelessness forcibly displaced from Ukraine (European Network on Statelessness, March 2022) [access]
- Follow link for text of briefing in English, Polish and Ukrainian. For more information, see also this related ENS web page and ISI's April 2022 bulletin.

"Stripping foreign fighters of their citizenship: International human rights and humanitarian law considerations," International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 103, nos. 916-917 (April 2021) [open access]

The Travaux Préparatoires of the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons (SSRN, March 2022) [text]
- See also related blog post.

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