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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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Citizenship stripping as alternative border control: Syrian counter-perspectives
This blog was first published by Routed Magazine in May 2021. We are re-posting it now to highlight the issues raised.
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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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Seizing new opportunities to address statelessness in the Dominican Republic
Following a decade of restrictive measures on migration and nationality matters, in late 2013 the Constitutional Tribunal in Santo Domingo issued a…
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Burden of proof in statelessness cases and the meaning of “by operation of its law”
The UK’s practice of depriving persons of their British citizenship when they are outside its territory belies its assurance, in the form of a duly…
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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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No nationality, no rights – Statelessness affecting Dominicans of Haitian descent
Two years ago the Dominican Constitutional Court judgement 168/13 deprived hundreds of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent of their…
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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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