Everything you need to know about statelessness

Addressing Roma statelessness in Albania and beyond

On Friday we published the latest report in our #RomaBelong series, a country study focusing on the link between statelessness, marginalisation and…

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…

New academic research centre dedicated to statelessness

The Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at Melbourne Law School was officially launched on 26 March 2018.

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…

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…

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.

Hoti v. Croatia – a landmark decision by the European Court of Human Rights on residence rights of a stateless person

Last week the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found that Croatia’s failure to ensure stability of residence for Mr. Hoti, who lived in Croatia…

New book looks at the implementation of the 1954 Convention across the EU

Until the launch of the ENS Statelessness INDEX last month, there was very little information available about how implementation of the 1954…

The Faces of Statelessness in Europe – the answers to the ‘wheres’, ‘whys’ and ‘hows’ on statelessness

Do you ever wonder where stateless people live, what their day-to-day lives look like or how they try to solve their predicament?

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…

#RomaBelong – Broadening the debate on how to end Roma statelessness

During the International Week against Racism (12-25 March 2018) one of the events organised in Munich looked at the issue of statelessness among…

Using the Statelessness Index as a tool to help secure law and policy reform in Serbia

Is my country party to international conventions dealing with statelessness? Is there any data on the stateless population? Is there a procedure to…