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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.
/ Cynthia Orchard, Statelessness Policy and Casework Coordinator at Asylum Aid and Judith Carter, Lecturer and In-house Solicitor at the Liverpool Law Clinic
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The power to deprive: prejudiced and precarious citizenship

“The baby turned blue and was cold.” Shamima Begum’s three-week-old son Jarrah has died in the Al-Roj camp in Syria. This is Shamima Begum’s third…
/ Amal de Chickera, Co-Director of the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion
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Global Data Justice: framing the (mis)fit between statelessness and technology

Global Data Justice is an emerging field of research centering on the idea that we should base the governance of data technologies on social justice…
/ Linnet Taylor, Associate Professor at Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT) & Hellen Mukiri-Smith, PhD Researcher at TILT
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Shining a light on devastating effects of statelessness on those living without nationality in Slovenia

The Peace Institute – Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies (PI) is a Slovenian private, independent, non-profit research…
/ Katarina VuÄŤko, The Peace Institute
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Using the #StatelessnessINDEX to raise awareness and enhance legal assistance in Moldova

Law Center of Advocates (LCA) is a public association founded in 1997. Our mission is to implement projects and programs aimed at promoting the Rule…
/ Oleg Palii - Executive Director, Law Center of Advocates
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"Enough talk, we need concrete proposals" - Protecting the right to nationality in Macedonia

In November 2017 the newly elected Prime minister of Republic of Macedonia Mr. Zoran Zaev announced that his government will adopt a comprehensive…
/ Zoran Drangovski, President of Macedonian Young Layers Association (MYLA)
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“You must belong to a state, you did not just fall from the sky!”

UNHCR launched the #IBelong campaign in November 2014 with the goal to end statelessness by 2024. Within this context, the UNHCR Office for…
/ Anja Klug, Head of Office at UNHCR Office for Switzerland and Liechtenstein
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Statelessness Index - assessing how countries in Europe protect stateless people

The European Network on Statelessness Director Chris Nash speaks about the Statelessness Index (https://index.statelessness.eu/) - the first and only…
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Not just a simple twist of fate: statelessness in Lithuania and Latvia

Statelessness seems to just happen to people, doesn’t it? Quirky circumstances of birth, unexpected conflict causing people to migrate, state…
/ Jo Venkov, Lawyer and writer on statelessness, identity, citizenship and belonging
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Spain accedes to the Convention on Reduction of Statelessness

This week some good news from Spain as it formally acceded to the 1961 UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. At an event hosted by the…
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In praise of the 1961 Statelessness Convention

It is a lot better to have a stateless person’s travel document than to be undocumented.
/ Alison Harvey, No5 Chambers London; @aliromah
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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…
/ Cynthia Orchard Statelessness Policy and Casework Coordinator, Asylum Aid / Migrants Resource Centre