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Shamima Begum: now stateless, but still deprived of her British citizenship
On 22 February 2023 the UK Special Immigration Appeals Commission upheld the UK Home Secretary’s decision to strip Shamima Begum of her citizenship.…
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Expert opinion: How the Netherlands, France and the UK are leaving children stranded at risk of statelessness in Iraq and Syria
Thousands of children associated with alleged ‘foreign fighters’ have been detained in Iraq and Syria since the territorial fall of the Islamic State…
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Shamima Begum Supreme Court judgment: What are the implications for statelessness cases?
Last week, the UK Supreme Court ruled in the case of Begum v Secretary of State for the Home Department, in favour of the Secretary of State and…
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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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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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Problems Faced by the Bidoons in the UK
The word ‘Bidoon’ refers to a diverse group of people in Kuwait who at the time of the country's move to independence were not given nationality.…
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Citizenship deprivation: How Britain took the lead on dismantling citizenship
“...although we may ... sometimes persecute people because they are foreign, the deeper truth is that we almost always make foreign those whom we…
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Who are you? - Fraud, impersonation and loss of nationality without procedural protection
The UK divides persons who acquire British citizenship by fraud into two classes when seeking to secure their loss of such citizenship. Where the…
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UK House of Lords defeats Government on deprivation of citizenship leading to statelessness
On 19 November 2013 Amal de Chickera responded on this blog to the UK Home Secretary’s announcement that she would invite parliament to change UK…
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Theresa May but the UK shall not
Theresa May recently announced that she would seek to change UK law so that British terror suspects can be deprived of their citizenship even if it…
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UK Supreme Court Delivers Victory Against Statelessness in Al-Jedda Case
Earlier this year, Laura Bingham contributed a blog for ENS on the much talked-about Al-Jedda case, in which the UK Supreme Court was asked to decide…
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