Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality

Opportunities:

Job announcement: Legal Research Consultancy, European Network on Statelessness [info]
-  "We are seeking a consultant or consortia of consultants to research and identify European domestic jurisprudence on statelessness-related issues and produce case summaries" for an online database. Apply by 7 September 2020.

Call for applications: Statelessness Intensive Course, Online, 17-23 February 2021 [info]
- Apply by 13 September 2020.

Blog posts & press:

The Coronavirus Crisis and Statelessness in Ukraine (Atlantic Council, July 2020) [text]

Forgotten Children’s Rights: Australian Trends Towards Statelessness of Children of Foreign Fighters (Border Criminologies Blog, July 2020) [text]

Introductory Blog: Taking a “Critical” Approach to Statelessness (Critical Statelessness Studies Blog, July 2020) [text]
- First post introducing new blog courtesy of the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness.

It is Not Just Paperwork, It is Human Work. Recognising and Supporting the Role of Grassroots Organisations in the Fight to End Statelessness (ENS Blog, July 2020) [text]

"A Model for Ukraine: Kyrgyzstan’s 10-year Battle to End Statelessness," Eurasianet, 28 July 2020 [text]

The Shamima Begum Decision: What Could It Mean for Other ISIS Women and Children Unable to Repatriate? (Just Security Blog, Aug. 2020) [text]

Statelessness in Portugal: Law, Policy and Practice at a Glance (ENS Blog, July 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Access to Citizenship for Abandoned Children: How Migrants’ Children Become ‘Stateless’ in Japanese Orphanages," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 1 Aug. 2020 [open access]

"Análisis Crítico del Concepto de Apátrida de Facto," Revista Peruana de Derecho Internacional, vol. 70, no. 164 (Enero-Abril 2020) [open access]

Establishing Statelessness Determination Procedures to Protect Stateless Persons, Good Practices Paper, Action 6 (UNHCR, July 2020) [text]

A Rockier Road to U.S. Citizenship? Findings of a Survey on Changing Naturalization Procedures (Migration Policy Institute, July 2020) [text]

Statelessness and Authoritarian Nationalism in India: Recent Developments, Briefing Note (Univ. of Melbourne, July 2020) [text]

"To Be or Not to Be?: Legal Identity in Crisis in Non-International Armed Conflicts," Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 43 (Forthcoming, Feb. 2021) [preprint]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality (17 July 2020)

Tagged Events & Opportunities. 

Thematic Focus: Children

"Getting Kids Out of Harm's Way: The United States' Obligation to Operationalize the Best Interest of the Child Principle for Unaccompanied Minors," Connecticut Law Review Online, vol. 47 (Forthcoming, 2014) [eprint via SSRN]

How Children Become 'Failed Asylum-seekers' (Kent Law Clinic, March 2014) [text]

The Relationship among Previous Exposure to War and Conflict, Acculturation, and Identity Formation among Adolescent Refugees, Bachelor's Thesis (University of Central Florida, 2014) [text]

Report on World's Orphans (IHH Humanitarian and Social Researches Center, July 2014) [text via ReliefWeb]

Strong Girls, Powerful Women: Program Planning and Design for Adolescent Girls in Humanitarian Settings (Women's Refugee Commission, June 2014) [text via ReliefWeb]

Unaccompanied Alien Children (U.S. Congressional Research Service, June & July 2014)
- Three new reports including an overview, a legal issues FAQ, and an analysis of factors contributing to recent immigration.

Related posts:
- Thematic Focus: Central American Unaccompanied Minors (24 July 2014)
- Thematic Focus: Children (8 July 2014)

Tagged Publications.