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Words After the Storm: Elite Rhetoric and the Limits of De‐Escalation in Postreferendum Catalonia

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When does a secessionist crisis end? What drives political elites to shift from hostility to moderation? This article examines the prospects of rhetorical de‐escalation in the aftermath of a secessionist dispute through the paradigmatic case of Catalonia.
Daniel Cetrà   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Statelessness determination: the Swiss experience

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2017
While a detailed law on statelessness determination is recommended by UNHCR and others, Swiss practice in statelessness determination has evolved without one. Despite this, Swiss practice has been shown to be rather progressive, at least in some areas of
Karen Hamann
doaj  

Statelessness and The Law: A Comparative Analysis of International and Afghan Legal Frameworks

open access: yesJournal of Arts, Humanities and Social Science
According to legal principles, every individual must possess a nationality in order to normally enjoy their rights. Despite this requirement, some persons remain without the nationality of any state; such individuals are referred to as stateless persons.
Mohammad Akram Ikram   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Looking Beyond Invisibility: Rohingyas’ Dangerous Encounters with Papers and Cards

open access: yesTilburg Law Review, 2019
State registration and identity documents are often promoted as a way to lift an individual out of the condition of statelessness and begin to redress their deficit of rights.
Natalie Brinham
doaj   +1 more source

‘A Rather Ungoverned Bringing Up’: Postwar Resistance and Displacement in The World My Wilderness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Rose Macaulay’s The World My Wilderness (1950) rewrites post-Second World War crises of displacement, child combat, and state re-integration through the genre of the domestic melodrama. Adolescent protagonists Barbary and Raoul move from France to London
Ian Whittington
core   +1 more source

Anticipatory, Chronic, and Imminent: A Typology of Insecurities Underlying Protracted Conflict Displacement and Its Implications

open access: yesPopulation and Development Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Protracted armed conflicts increasingly drive long‐term displacement, yet demographic frameworks often treat forced migration from conflict settings as a response to acute, singular events. This study introduces a typology of displacement grounded in the tempo and form of conflict‐related insecurities—anticipatory, chronic, and imminent—and ...
Stephanie M. Koning   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Come and Go? How Temporary Visa Works Under U.S. Bilateral Trade Agreements with Arab countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The United States (U.S.) and Jordan launched negotiations for a free trade agreement in 2000.The US-JO FTA includes a preamble, nineteen articles, three annexes, joint statements, memorandums of understanding, and side letters.
Malkawi, Bashar H.
core  

Locke(d) in a Dilemma: The Problem of Territorial Authority

open access: yesPhilosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Lockean social contract theory, the state exercises its authority over territory through property rights. The state has territorial authority over the property it and its citizens claim. This authority is legitimate when the state has the consent of the governed and effectively governs. In this paper, I argue that there is an irreconcilable
Samantha L. Fritz
wiley   +1 more source

Skeptical Scrutiny Of Plenary Power: Judicial and Executive Branch Decision Making in Miller v Albright [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
In 1996, just a few months after the United States successfully urged the Supreme Court in United States v. Virginia to invalidate as sex-discriminatory the male-only admissions policy at the Virginia Military Institute, the District of Columbia Circuit ...
Aleinikoff, T. Alexander   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Key threats of statelessness in the post-secession Sudanese and South Sudanese nationality regimes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Post print version deposited in accordance with SHERPA ROMEO guidelines. The definitive version is available at: http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/22112596-01902023Following the secession of South Sudan from Sudan on 9 July
Sanderson, MA
core   +1 more source

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