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Statelessness in the European Union: The Case of Cuban Migrants

Tilburg Law Review, 2014
Statelessness affects 12 million people around the world, including within the European Union. On the international level, the 1954 United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 United Nations Convention on the ...
Giulia Bittoni
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The Role Of Law Clinics in the Fight Against Statelessness by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Unhcr) in Nigeria

International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, 2021
Statelessness has become a global phenomenon. Statelessness simply means that a person does not belong to any country in the world. It means that a person does not have a nationality or any means to prove his or her nationality.
Maryam Idris Abdulkadir
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Moving Statelessness Forward on the International Agenda

Tilburg Law Review, 2014
This paper aims at shedding more light on the recent re-emergence of the issue of statelessness on the international agenda, from a government perspective.
Tamás Molnár
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One Step Forward, Half Step Back: the Still Long Way to Go to End Statelessness in Madagascar

African Human Mobility Review, 2023
This work sheds light on the still unresolved plight of statelessness in Madagascar, a country that has a long history of stateless communities, above all among the Karana people, of Indian origin and Muslim religion. In spite of several important steps
Cristiano d'Orsi
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Role of Colonialism in Creating and Perpetuating Statelessness in Southern Africa

African Human Mobility Review, 2023
Some of the largest stateless populations in the world are in Southern Africa. Statelessness in the region is primarily linked to colonial histories, border changes, migration, gender, ethnic and religious discrimination, and poor civil registry systems.
Aimee-Noel Mbiyozo
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Statelessness

Annual Review of Law and Social Science
A new approach to statelessness has emerged in the literature on the topic. Taking citizenism as a starting point and pioneered by Swider and Bloom, this approach offers a completely fresh paradigm for studying and understanding the statelesseness phenomenon.
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Right to Nationality and the Reduction of Statelessness: the Responses of the International Migration Law Framework

Groningen Journal of International Law, 2017
Statelessness is the absence of the right to have a legal connection between nationality and state. The state of nationality is an identity to enjoy a ‘right to have rights’.
Nafees Ahmad
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Beyond International Law: The Role of Multinational Corporations in Reducing the Number of Stateless Children

Tilburg Law Review, 2014
Despite the proliferation of international law designed to eradicate statelessness, the United Nations estimates there are approximately 12 million stateless individuals worldwide, many of which are the children of migrant workers employed in industries ...
Mark K. Brewer
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South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
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Problems related to statelessness as a consequence of the war in Ukraine from the Polish perspective

Eastern European Journal of Transnational Relations
One of the problems that has become particularly important for Europe in the face of the ongoing war in Ukraine is the problem of statelessness. It concerns not only the imperfections of applicable legal regulations and their interpretation but above ...
Agnieszka Gajda
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