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Helping refugee practitioners working on the Syria crisis to understand statelessness

ā€œA generation of Syrian children who don’t countā€, ā€œRefugee crisis creates ā€˜stateless generation’ of children in limboā€, ā€œA right to exist: the…
/ Laura van Waas, Co-Director of the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion
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Facing a lifetime of uncertainty: Protecting stateless persons from arbitrary detention in the UK

ā€œThere are no human rights in the United Kingdomā€, said Yassin, a stateless Bidoon from Kuwait in his late twenties. He came to the UK in 2007 to…
/ Katia Bianchini, ENS researcher & Max Planck Institute for Religious Studies and Ethnic Diversity (Goettingen, Germany)
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Problems Faced by the Bidoons in the UK

The word ā€˜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.…
/ Nasser Al-Anezy, Chair and director of the Kuwaiti Community Association & Katia Bianchini, Max Planck Institute for Religious Studies and Ethnic Diversity
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Legal Limbo: Europe’s Stateless Asylum Seekers

Stateless migrants often face considerable difficulties when travelling to, and newly arriving in, countries of potential asylum. Nonetheless, the…
/ Thomas Mcgee, Independent Researcher On Statelessness