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Rejected by the homeland: Stateless Libyan Tuareg and the role of migration

This blog outlines the situation of stateless Tuareg in Libya. It is based on a preliminary study conducted through interviews with sixteen Libyan…
/ Yentl de Lange, Arabist and Researcher focusing on migration and North Africa
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Preventing Statelessness among Migrants in North Africa and their Children: Birth registration and ‘legal identity’

“Legal identity” is all the rage in international policy circles. From the target set by the Sustainable Development Goals to “provide legal…
/ Bronwen Manby, Senior Policy Fellow with the LSE’s Middle East Centre
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Introducing the Citizenship Rights Africa website

Readers of the European Network on Statelessness blog may be interested in the newly relaunched website Citizenship Rights in Africa Initiative. The…
/ Bronwen Manby, Senior Visiting Fellow at the LSE Centre for the Study of Human Rights
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South African courts confirm the right to nationality of a stateless child - 20 year old legal principle protecting stateless children is finally implemented

On 6 September 2016 a 4 year court battle of a stateless child to access South African citizenship came to an end. Even though South African law…
/ Liesl Muller, Head of the Statelessness Project at Lawyers for Human Rights
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Statelessness in Africa: the scale of the challenge and the opportunities for leadership

How do the contours of statelessness vary from continent to continent?  To what extent is the nature of statelessness directly tied to the nature of…
/ Bronwen Manby
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Denationalisation and the politics of citizenship in Zimbabwe

Statelessness as a human rights issue has been neglected across the globe. I tried hard to avoid beginning this post restating something which has…
/ Marina Lourenço