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Unwanted Citizenship Part 1 – The man who would be stateless

Sahrawi

This blog is the first in a short series looking at citizenship, statelessness and the law on state occupation. I open the debate with the unusual case of a man from Western Sahara, a Sahrawi, who unsuccessfully begged a French court to treat him as stateless rather than as having Moroccan citizenship.Β  Given the challenges of being stateless, what would …