14 September 2026

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality

Opportunities:

Call for applications: Statelessness Intensive Course 2027, Online, 10-16 February 2027 [info]
- Early bird submission deadline is 30 September 2026. Otherwise, the overall deadline for applications and scholarship requests is 21 October 2026.

CFP: Statelessness & Citizenship Review [info]
- Contributions sought for a special issue on "Citizenship, Statelessness and Emerging Technologies." Submission deadline is 1 October 2026.

Short pieces:

The right to belong: Ukraine's progress in reducing statelessness and the new challenges of war (UNHCR, Aug. 2026) [text]

Stripped There, Held Here: Iraq’s Burden in the Global Failure to Repatriate ISIS Foreign Terrorist Fighters (OpinioJuris, Sept. 2026) [text]

Walls of paper, walls of stone: the architectures of Palestinian statelessness (ENS Blog, Sept. 2026) [text]

**See also ISI's Monthly Bulletin for more news, information, articles, & resources.

Reports & journal articles:

"Assessing the impact of the Global Statelessness Fund on resourcing and decision-making power for affected communities in the Asia-Pacific," Humanitarian Exchange, no. 87 (Aug. 2026) [full-text]

"Citizenship Revoked, Humanity Denied: The Existential Cost of Statelessness," Howard Law Journal, vol. 69, no. 2 (2026) [full-text]
- Includes a focus on the US.

"Competing Faces of Citizenship Beyond Naturalization: Hmong Refugees and the Politics of Recognition in the United States After the Vietnam War," Genealogy, vol. 10, no. 4 (Sept. 2026) [open access]

"Members Only," Brown Political Review, 13 Sept. 2026 [text]
- Focuses on the Bidoon in Kuwait.

Statelessness & Citizenship Review, vol. 8, no. 1 (2026) [open access]
- Mix of articles, commentary, case notes and book reviews.

Statelessness as a Barrier to Self-Determination: The Rohingya Experience, Refugee-Led Governance, and the Politics of Belonging, Working Paper, no. 6 (Harvard Univ., Sept. 2026) [text]

Multimedia:

65th Anniversary Event of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, 2 Sept. 2026 [access]
- See also related summary of the discussions that took place.

Resources:

Statelessness: A Web Research Guide (updated Aug. 2026) [access]
- "The aim of this guide is to introduce readers to the concept of statelessness and point them to key information sources... ."

Statelessness Encyclopedia Asia Pacific (SEAP) (Nationality For All) [access]
- See this news release for information about SEAP's latest update, which incorporates research on the intersection of digital ID systems and statelessness in the Asia Pacific region.

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