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Celebrating Pro Bono Week: How lawyers can support charities to address statelessness
Over the last few years, Akin Gump lawyers have been providing pro bono casework support to Asylum Aid, as well as supporting the development of a…
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Understanding and addressing childhood statelessness in the UK: Introducing our new project
With a few notable exceptions, statelessness has so far received limited attention among child rights and migration advocates in the UK, yet figures…
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Citizenship and the fall of the British Empire: A system of exclusion
After 258 years under British and French colonial rule, Mauritius gained independence in 1968. The new Constitution of Mauritius created different…
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"Everything is stuck”: Left in limbo and stateless as a British Overseas Citizen
I arrived in the UK in 2001 at the age of twenty from Malaysia, with feelings of excitement as I embarked on an Engineering Degree at the University…
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Improvements and challenges in UK’s new guidance on statelessness applications
The new Tottenham Hotspur football team manager, José Mourinho, recently vowed that he won't repeat his past mistakes, but instead will make new…
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Statelessness is back (not that it ever went away...)
Citizenship deprivation and statelessness are very much back in fashion. States increasingly resort to such measures to deal with those returning…
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UK Home Office changes to Immigration Rules on statelessness: a mixed bag
The extension of stateless leave from 2.5 to 5 years is very welcome; other changes to the Immigration Rules relating to statelessness raise concerns.
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The appalling mistreatment of a stateless human rights activist, barriers to British citizenship, and the power to bring change
Persecution and statelessness inflicted by the Bahraini Government Sayed Alwadaei is a soft-spoken but determined man from Bahrain. There is…
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Windrush scandal exposes what may lie ahead for children born in the UK growing up without citizenship
Last year, we wrote about the many barriers to stateless children born in the UK exercising their right to register as British citizens. Those…
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The normalisation of exceptional powers: deprivation of nationality in France and in the UK
It is now widely accepted that the post 9/11 context prompted a dilution of the rights attached to citizenship.
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A new website to help stateless people in the UK
If you are a person who is so fortunate as to always have had a nationality, imagine for a moment that you are not recognised as a citizen of any…
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