Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Call for participation: Why peer spaces matter for stateless people’s wellbeing: A University College London research project [info]

- Follow link for info on how to get involved in this project; no deadline indicated.

Webinar: Resolving Statelessness Together, 10 September 2025 [info]

Short pieces:

Cambodia: Revised Law Endangers Citizenship (HRW, Sept. 2025) [text]

Can the White House Denaturalize Domestic Opponents? (CATO At Liberty Blog, July 2025) [text]

Cypriot children without Cypriot citizenship: What is the ‘Mixed Marriage Problem’? (ENS Blog, Sept. 2025) [text]

Ensuring Vocational Inclusion for Stateless Individuals (Global Alliance to End Statelessness Blog, June 2025) [text]

Indian Citizenship: By Religion, Not By Right (ISI, Aug. 2025) [text]

"Living in the shadows: Why stateless people fear Trump's immigration crackdown," NPR, 21 Aug. 2025 [text]

Niger Officially Launches Global Alliance to End Statelessness (UNHCR, Aug. 2025) [text]

"Stateless in South Africa: The untold crisis facing millions without documentation," Independent Online (South Africa), 19 Aug. 2025 [text via CRAI]

"Stateless Tibetans in exile in India yearn for identity and homeland," BBC News, 11 Aug. 2025 [text]

Taking Stock of the Birthright Citizenship Cases, Part II: Making Sense of the Three Established Exceptions (Just Security, Aug. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Trump Administration Releases New Plans to Enforce Birthright Citizenship Order (Boundless Immigration, July 2025) [text]

- See also related Slate article.

Reports: 

The Role of Mukhtars in Supporting Stateless Persons in Lebanon: Challenges, role of civil society and recommendations (SPEAC consortium in Lebanon, 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Spotlight on Statelessness: January-June 2025 - Implementation of the Global Action Plan to End Statelessness 2.0 (UNHCR, Sept. 2025) [text]

Statelessness Report 2024 (UNHCR, Aug. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia & Togo. Also available in French.

Unmaking Citizens: The Architecture of Rights Violations and Exclusion in India’s Citizenship Trials (National Law School of India Univ. & Queen Mary Univ. of London, 2025) [text via GlobalCit]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality (30 July 2025)

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality

Short pieces:

Access to nationality for women and girls essential for achieving gender equality and development: UN expert (OHCHR, Oct. 2023) [text]

Are Stateless Claimants Disadvantaged within Asylum Procedures? New Evidence from the UK Context (ENS Blog, Oct. 2023) [text]

Dominican Republic: IACHR urges the State to Eradicate Statelessness (OAS, Sept. 2023) [text]

- See also related news releases from Amnesty International and Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion. 

In search of a legal bond: Turkish Cypriot children of mixed marriages in Cyprus (ENS Blog, Oct. 2023) [text]

OSCE-UNHCR conference in Skopje aims to end statelessness in South-Eastern Europe (OSCE, Oct. 2023) [text]

UNHCR commends the Republic of the Congo’s commitment to end statelessness (UNHCR, Oct. 2023) [text]

**Read ISI's Monthly Bulletins for more news and information. 

Reports & journal articles:

"Circles of alienation: examining first-hand experiences of citizenship deprivation through the perspective of emotions and estrangement," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 5 Oct. 2023 [open access]

- Focuses on Norway.

"Health Care Experiences of Stateless People in Canada," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 13 Oct. 2023 [open access]

"Your Credibility is Undermined" - Challenges in Determining Country of Origin for Stateless Asylum Seekers: Kurds from Syria in the UK (European Network on Statelessness, Oct. 2023) [text]

- See also recording of related webinar.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality (26 Sept. 2023)

 

New Book Titles

Please visit my Pinterest page to learn about new books due out in November 2015. I've also added information about a few new titles to the October 2015 book board.

If you are not a member of Pinterest, these new titles are listed below for your reference (organized by title).

November 2015:

Tahir Zaman, Islamic Traditions of Refuge in the Crises of Iraq and Syria, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2015

Zeynep Sezgin & Dennis Dijkzeul, eds., The New Humanitarians in International Practice: Emerging Actors and Contested Principles, Routledge, Nov. 2015

Anne Decobert, The Politics of Aid to Burma: A Humanitarian Struggle on the Thai-Burmese Border, Routledge, Nov. 2015

Helen Taylor, Refugees and the Meaning of Home: Cypriot Narratives of Loss, Longing and Daily Life in London, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2015

Nanette Svenson, The United Nations as a Knowledge System, Routledge, Nov. 2015

October 2015:

Francesca Pusterla, The European Union and Humanitarian Crises: Patterns of Intervention, Ashgate, Oct. 2015

Gilles Carbonnier, Humanitarian Economics: War, Disaster and the Global Aid Market, Hurst & Co. Publishers, Oct. 2015

Kerstin Rosenow-Williams & François Gemenne, eds., Organizational Perspectives on Environmental Migration, Routledge, Oct. 2015

Kathleen Valtonen, Social Work and Integration in Immigrant Communities: Framing the Field, Ashgate, Oct. 2015

Paula Banerjee, Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury & Atig Ghosh, The State of Being Stateless: An Account of South Asia, Orient BlackSwan, Oct. 2015

Tagged Books.

New Book Titles

Please visit my Pinterest page to learn about new books due out in October 2015. I've also added information about a few new titles to the September 2015, New Legal Texts, and Reference Books boards.

If you have not joined Pinterest, these new titles are listed below for your reference (organized by title).

October 2015:

Andrea C. Simonelli, Governing Climate Induced Migration and Displacement: IGO Expansion and Global Policy Implications, Palgrave Macmillan, Oct. 2015

Andrea Schneiker, Humanitarian NGOs, (In)Security and Identity: Epistemic Communities and Security Governance, Ashgate, Oct. 2015

Steven Kirkwood, Simon Goodman, Chris McVittie & Andy McKinlay, The Language of Asylum: Refugees and Discourse, Palgrave Macmillan, Oct. 2015

Nina Gren, Occupied Lives Maintaining Integrity in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in the West Bank, American University in Cairo Press, Oct. 2015

Antonio de Lauri, The Politics of Humanitarianism: Power, Ideology and Aid, IB Tauris, Oct. 2015

Brett R. O'Bannon, ed., Reassessing the Responsibility to Protect: Conceptual and Operational Challenges, Routledge, Oct. 2015

Helen Taylor, Refugees and the Meaning of Home: Cypriot Narratives of Loss, Longing and Daily Life in London, Palgrave Macmillan, Oct. 2015

Gabriella Lazaridis & Khursheed Wadia, eds., The Securitisation of Migration in the EU: Debates Since 9/11, Palgrave Macmillan, Oct. 2015

Fernando Chang-Muy & Elaine Congress, Social Work with Immigrants and Refugees: Legal Issues, Clinical Skills, and Advocacy, 2nd ed., Springer, Oct. 2015

September 2015:

Alastair Ager & Joey Ager, Faith, Secularism, and Humanitarian Engagement: Finding the Place of Religion in the Support of Displaced Communities, Palgrave Pivot, Sept. 2015

Hugo Slim, Humanitarian Ethics: A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War and Disaster, Oxford University Press, Sept. 2015

Sharon Abramowitz & Catherine Panter-Brick, eds., Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice, University of Pennsylvania Press, Sept. 2015

Kai Koddenbrock, The Practice of Humanitarian Intervention: Aid Workers, Agencies and Institutions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Routledge, Sept. 2015

Eric Tang, Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the New York City Hyperghetto, Temple University Press, Sept. 2015

New Legal Texts:

Hans-Joachim Heintze & Pierre Thielbörger, eds., From Cold War to Cyber War: The Evolution of the International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict over the Last 25 Years, Springer, Aug. 2015 

Gabriel J. Chin & Rose Cuison Villazor, eds., The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965: Legislating a New America, Cambridge University Press, Oct. 2015

Reference Book:

Anna Triandafyllidou, ed., Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies, Routledge, Oct. 2015

Tagged Books.