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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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UK faith leaders urge government to end detention of stateless people
Over the last three months, Scottish Faiths Action for Refugees and ENS have been working in partnership to promote the #LockedInLimbo campaign and…
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Barriers to citizenship facing stateless children born in the UK
Stateless children born in the UK have a right to register as British citizens after living here for a continuous period of five years. But various…
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#LockedinLimbo: The Continued Detention of Stateless Persons in the UK
On 4-5 May 2017, myself and two colleagues from Duncan Lewis had the privilege of joining a delegation of over a hundred and twenty people - lawyers…
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Delayed lives — the hidden misery of stateless people locked up in the UK
This blog was first published by Open Democracy in November 2016, We are re-posting it now to highlight the issues raised - which will be addressed…
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Detained and nowhere to go – New ENS report sheds light on the hidden misery of stateless persons in the UK
Today we are publishing new research into the detention of stateless people in Britain which warns that the failure of UK immigration authorities to…
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Facing a lifetime of uncertainty: Protecting stateless persons from arbitrary detention in the UK
“There are no human rights in the United Kingdom”, said Yassin, a stateless Bidoon from Kuwait in his late twenties. He came to the UK in 2007 to…
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