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Addressing statelessness in Europe’s refugee response and why more needs to be done

“During the initial registration, they wanted to register us as Bangladeshis. We all said no, we are not from there. They kept us there for five or

/ Laura van Waas, ISI Co-director & Nina Murray, ENS Head of Policy and Research
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Citizenship Under Threat in Myanmar: A Shared Experience

“Why!? Our parents were citizens, but we didn’t get any citizenship cards! We are nationals, but we have to get permission like foreigners to go

/ Natalie Brinham - Independent consultant and Myanmar specialist
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Reflections from Madrid and galvanising action to solve statelessness in Europe

The launch of a new strategy is always a moment for looking both back and forwards. This week we published our new five-year strategic plan Solving

/ Chris Nash, Director of the European Network on Statelessness
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#HearItFromUs – Working with people affected by statelessness to inform and deliver our mission

The specific rights and experiences of stateless people and those affected by nationality problems are rarely acknowledged in the media and policy

/ Khadija Badri, Advocacy and Engagement Officer at the European Network on Statelssness
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GCM Commentary: Objective 4: Ensure that all migrants have proof of legal identity and adequate documentation

Universal Declaration of Human RightsArticle 15.1: Everyone has the right to a nationality. Convention on the Rights of the ChildArticle 7:
/ Amal de Chickera, Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion
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The Global Compact for Migration provides a starting point for considering statelessness in migration governance

At the opening ceremony of the Intergovernmental Meeting to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM), UN Secretary

/ Tendayi Bloom, Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at The Open University
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Statelessness and the second revision of the Global Compact for Migration: What still needs to be addressed?

Happily, statelessness is explicitly addressed in detail in the current draft of the global compact for migration. Much in this document is positive

/ Tendayi Bloom
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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

/ Nina Murray - Head of Policy & Research at the European Network on Statelessness (ENS)
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Are the global compacts on refugees and for migration addressing statelessness appropriately?

The New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, adopted in September 2016, set out to create two compacts. On the one hand, there would be the

/ Tendayi Bloom, Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at The Open University
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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

/ Dr Julija Sardelić, Marie Curie SkƂodowska Postdoctoral Fellow LINES – Leuven International and European Studies, University of Leuven
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Sweden’s Temporary Asylum Laws: The Impending Problems for Stateless Refugees

In response to the large number of refugees entering Sweden in 2015, the government implemented a temporary asylum policy. Sweden’s Prime Minister,

/ Jason Tucker, Postdoctoral researcher at Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (Malmö University)
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Helping refugee practitioners working on the Syria crisis to understand statelessness

“A generation of Syrian children who don’t count”, “Refugee crisis creates ‘stateless generation’ of children in limbo”, “A right to exist: the

/ Laura van Waas, Co-Director of the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion