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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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Can international law offer protection to those at risk of climatic statelessness?
Scholarship on the impact of climate change on migration has tended to focus on refugee populations, but growing scholarship highlights the impending…
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Stateless people gain access to documentation in Russia
In August 2021, amendments to the Law on the Legal Status of Foreign Citizens in the Russian Federation and other legislation regulating the legal…
Interviews
Interview with Laura Bingham, Senior Managing Legal Officer at the Open Society Justice Initiative
Laura Bingham works as a Senior Managing Legal Officer at the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI). She leads OSJI’s projects on the right to…
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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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Mr Bilali and the uncertain country of origin – statelessness and subsidiary protection in the CJEU case of Bilali C-720/17
What does the case of Bilali in the Court of Justice of the European Union tell us about the responsibility of states to deal appropriately and…
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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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