We have developed an accessible toolkit to help frontline practitioners in Scotland identify if someone they are working with might be stateless or have undetermined nationality.
The toolkit provides practical guidance on how to identify statelessness and signpost those affected to the right information, advice, and support.
The resource is aimed at frontline practitioners in Scotland who are not experts in statelessness or immigration or nationality law. This might include social workers, healthcare workers, registrars, teachers, migrant and refugee support workers, community organisations, guardians, and others.
The toolkit will help readers to:
- Recognise the indicators of statelessness
- Gather information by asking respectful questions and helping obtain or review documentation; and
- Refer to specialist legal advice.
This toolkit is co-authored by ENS and JustRight Scotland, with support from the Scottish Government, COSLA, British Red Cross, Scottish Refugee Council, and Guardianship Scotland, and New Scots Core Group Advisor, Hossa Skandary-Macpherson.
The publication of this toolkit was supported by a grant from the Scottish Government.
