30 July 2025

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality

Opportunities:

Call for applications: Statelessness Intensive Course 2025, Online, 18-24 February 2026 [info]
- Early bird submission deadline is 31 August 2025. Otherwise, the overall deadline is 30 September 2025.

Call for feedback: Have Your Say: Help shape the future of the Statelessness Index [info]
- Follow link for survey. Deadline for responses is 14 September 2025.

14th Online Course on Statelessness, 14 October–6 November 2025 [info]
- Apply by 16 September 2025.

Call for applications: StatelessHub Research Fellowship, ISI, 5 November 2025-30 April 2026 [info]
- Note: This is a part-time, home-based, unpaid position. Apply by 30 September 2025.

Short pieces:

"Forced from Bhutan, Deported by the US: These Stateless Himalayan People are in a Unique Limbo," CNN, 18 July 2025 [text]

Framed as Undocumented, Denied Citizenship Rights: The Case of Bengali Migrant Workers in India (Refugee Watch Online, July 2025) [text]

"History Shows Why Birthright Citizenship is so Important," Time Magazine, 14 July 2025 [text]

How citizenship chaos was averted, for now, by a class action injunction against Trump’s birthright citizenship order (The Conversation, July 2025) [text]
- See also related ImmigrationProf blog posts, here and here.

IACHR expresses concern over new violations of the right to nationality in Nicaragua (OAS, July 2025) [text]

Justice Department efforts to strip citizenship from naturalized Americans likely violate constitutional rights (The Conversation, July 2025) [text]
- See also related PBS News article.

Statelessness, Human Rights and the Doubling of Criminal Law: Hungary’s New Law on the “Suspension of Citizenship” (EJIL: Talk Blog, July 2025) [text]

Taking Stock of the Birthright Citizenship Cases, Part I: Unpacking Trump v. CASA, Inc. (Just Security, July 2025) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Allegiance, Treason, and Birthright Citizenship," Loyola University Chicago Law Journal (Forthcoming, 2025) [preprint]
- Focuses on the US.

"Circular Migration of Young Sahrawis Between the Sahrawi Refugee Camps in Algeria and Spain: The Cultural Aspects of Agency within the Precarisation of Legal Status," Migraciones, no. 63 (June 2025) [open access]
- "The Sahrawis are thus a specific group of circular migrants whose work and stay are regularised, however not, as is often the case, through agreements that facilitate seasonal labour and flows of people within the global capitalist economy, but with the use of an international protection tool —the stateless status."

The Impact of Women's Unequal Nationality Rights on Sustainable Development in the Middle East-North Africa Region (Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights, July 2025) [text]

Opening Doors for Children: Prevention of Childhood Statelessness - Good Practices in the OSCE Area (OSCE & UNHCR, July 2025) [access]

Proposed Select Draft Articles on Nationality Rights to Ensure Gender Equality (Equality Now &  Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights, July 2025) [access]
- See also related news release.

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