In my last blog, I looked at statelessness determination procedures as a tool to help eradicate statelessness and mitigate the effects of statelessness for stateless people. In this blog, I want to come back to this issue. I look more closely at how the procedure can help both stateless people and the state, which countries have made use of the …
Monthly Archives: November 2018
The causes of statelessness are many and can include discrimination against particular ethnic or religious groups, or on the basis of gender, the emergence of new States and transfers of territory between existing States, and gaps in nationality laws. But statelessness is not an accident. It is often the result of legal, policy, or political decisions made by states. States …
Giving citizenship to people who are displaced or stateless is the best way to ensure a sense of belonging. But what if this is citizenship on paper only and it is of a country where the person has never been and where he or she will not be allowed to reside? Is that person in effect only in possession of …
