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Statelessness in Europe: Insights, evidence needs and engagement [PDF]

open access: yes
This report analyses the role of the European Migration Network (EMN) in evidence engagement, with a particular focus on the EMN Platform on Statelessness.
BISSINGER, Jutta   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

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

Transposing Citizenship: Acts of Belonging and Locality Among the Non‐Citizen Population of the Arabian Peninsula

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how non‐citizens born and raised in Kuwait develop a sense of belonging despite restrictive nationality laws and the Kafala sponsorship system that deny them legal pathways to citizenship. Drawing on qualitative ethnographic research, I introduce the concept of ‘acts of belonging’ to capture how these individuals assert ...
Abdullah al‐Khonaini
wiley   +1 more source

Strengthened or Sidelined? An Evaluation of Pledges to Eradicate Statelessness in the Southern African Development Community

open access: yesAfrican Human Mobility Review
Since 2018, there has been a significant mobilization of developmental funding mechanisms and efforts to facilitate greater burden-sharing among refugee-hosting states and address protracted displacement.
Sky Kruger, Shazia Sader
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

Political Naturalisation: Conscripting Transit Citizens in the United Arab Emirates

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since its formation, the United Arab Emirates has sought to construct a cohesive sense of national identity among its citizens, centred on a system of material and legal privileges granted exclusively to Emirati nationals. A pillar of its nation‐building project was the strict exclusion of foreigners from citizenship and the upholding of a ...
Mira Al Hussein
wiley   +1 more source

Contested Refugeeness in the Lavrio Kurdish Camp After the 2015 Reception Crisis in Greece

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the meanings of refugeeness among Kurdish residents of the self‐managed Lavrio refugee camp in Greece in the aftermath of the 2015 reception crisis. Focusing on how Kurdish camp residents make sense of their political identities and on how they distinguish themselves from those they call ‘non‐political refugees’, the ...
Filyra Vlastou‐Dimopoulou
wiley   +1 more source

Racial Discrimination in Nationality Laws

open access: yesColumbia Journal of Race and Law, 2021
Statelessness has historically been overlooked by the international community, but it is now a significant focus of the work of academics, advocates, and international institutions.
Michelle Foster, Timnah Rachel Baker
doaj  

A New Dawn? Statelessness and Assam

open access: yesGroningen Journal of International Law, 2019
This article explores the ongoing crisis of statelessness that has been created because of a petition made by the people of Assam, India to update the electoral rolls in the state.
Regina Menachery Paulose
doaj   +1 more source

Gukurahundism, Constitutionality and Ethnonationalist Language Policy Contestations: An Ideological Critique of Mediated Discourses About Mother Tongue Instruction in Zimbabwe

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines mediated discourses on the state of implementation of language in education policy using a critical incident as a reference. Employing Thompson's modes of ideology, we perform an ideological critique of purposively sampled cross‐media discourses spawned by the failed attempt of a Zimbabwean government deputy minister to ...
Khulekani Ndlovu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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