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Country position paper: Statelessness in Iran
Iran has an estimated population of 82.1 million people and is home to an unknown number of stateless people. Comprehensive data about the problem of…
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Country position paper: Statelessness in Iraq
Iraq has a population of 40.4 million people, and is home to an estimated 47,515 stateless people, although it is possible that the true figure for…
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Stateless Syrians in Europe: Navigating the “Knowledge Gap”
Over the last two years, I have participated in the European Network on Statelessness (ENS) and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI)’s…
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Country position paper: Statelessness in Syria
Syria has a population of 18.5 million people, with the latest UN estimates suggesting it is home to 160,000 stateless persons. However, this…
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Addressing statelessness in Europe’s refugee response: Gaps and Opportunities
Statelessness is an overlooked and often invisible feature of the forced migration context in Europe. Actors involved in the refugee response are…
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Investor citizenship must not be used as a remedy for statelessness
When I started to look into the sale of passports a decade ago, there had been hardly any academic research on the topic. Yet with the increasing…
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Country Position Paper: Statelessness in Kuwait
Kuwait has a population of 4.2 million people, of whom more than half are not Kuwaiti citizens. The country is also home to an estimated 93,000…
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Country position paper: Statelessness in Myanmar
Myanmar has a population of 50.3 million people. The country is also home to an estimated 495,939 stateless Rohingya, the country’s main stateless…
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From Syria to Europe: Experiences of Stateless Kurds and Palestinian Refugees from Syria Seeking Protection in Europe
As part of a joint #StatelessJourneys project, the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI), ASKV Refugee Support and the European Network on…
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Shining a light on the link between statelessness and minorities
The UN Special Rapporteur on Minorities, Fernand de Varennes, is currently in the process of compiling a thematic report on the link between…
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How to square a circle: contemplating the shades of minority statelessness
In present times, ever more people dream of not being tied up to a certain state and becoming ‘citizens of everywhere’. This post-national dream…
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