Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality

Opportunity:

Call for applications: Visiting Fellowship, Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness [info]

- Apply by 1 August 2023.

Short pieces:

Breaking the Mold: Brazil's Progressive Approach to Granting Nationality and Reducing Statelessness (ENS Blog, June 2023) [text]

Ensuing Statelessness as (Post) Colonial Effect: Dynamics of Formal Identification Denial among the Fulani in Ghana (CSS Blog, June 2023) [text]

French Administrative Supreme Court rejected a stateless status application from a Sahrawi applicant (ENS Blog, July 2023) [text]

"Nepal citizenship law lifeline to 'hundreds of thousands' in limbo," Reuters, 5 July 2023 [text]

Newsletter of the Research and Advocacy Network on Statelessness in the MENA Region, no. 1 (May 2023) [text]

Risks of Stigmatising Stateless People through Association and Conflation: Noxious Nexuses with Gender Based Violence and Terrorism (CSS Blog, May 2023) [text]

The State of Statelessness in Ukraine (CSIS Critical Questions, March 2023) [text]

Reports:

 

Asia & the Pacific Regional Trends: Forced Displacement and Statelessness 2022 (UNHCR, July 2023) [text]

Protection of asylum seekers and of children facing lifelong statelessness highlighted in two significant South African decisions: case note extracts (AfricanLII, June 2023) [text]

Refugee protection, internal displacement and statelessness: Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Siobhán Mullally, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/53/28 (UN Human Rights Council, May 2023) [text] [text via ReliefWeb]

- See also related press release and discussion.

Refugees from Generation to Generation: Preventing Statelessness by Advancing Durable Solutions in the Great Lakes Region (International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, April 2023) [access]

- Follow link for report in English and French.

Statelessness Encyclopedia Asia Pacific (Nationality for All, forthcoming) [info]

- Follow link for more extracts from this forthcoming resource.

Surviving Statelessness and Trafficking: A Rohingya Case Study of Intersections and Policy Gaps (Institute of Statelessness and Inclusion et al., June 2023) [text]

Multimedia:

The Ethics of Care in Nepali Citizenship-Equality Activism, 27 June 2023 [access]

- Part of the "Refugees, Citizenship and Statelessness: Asia in Focus" webinar series.

Key moments and reactions from our "Addressing Statelessness in Europe" conference, 8-9 June 2023 [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality (23 June 2023)