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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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European countries lead the way in problematic practice of citizenship stripping as a security measure
In the decades following World War II, citizenship stripping disappeared as a practice in the West, in no small part because the practice had come to…
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Nationality & Borders Bill Briefing for House of Lords Committee Stage
This briefing concerns Clause 9 ‘deprivation of citizenship’ and Clause 10 ‘stateless minors’ of Part 1 (Nationality) of the Nationality &…
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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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ENS and AIRE Centre file a third party submission to the ECtHR on Pham v. UK
The European Network on Statelessness (ENS) and The AIRE Centre have filed a third party submission to the European Court of Human Rights in the case…
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Russia’s Constitutional Court delivers questionable ruling on nationality stripping
Last month, Russia’s Constitutional Court ruled that there is no lack of clarity in legal provisions that make it possible to strip a person of their…
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Shamima Begum Supreme Court judgment: What are the implications for statelessness cases?
Last week, the UK Supreme Court ruled in the case of Begum v Secretary of State for the Home Department, in favour of the Secretary of State and…
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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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Liberty, Equality, Fraternity…really? Why France’s forsaken “children of ISIS”* may grow up to view the French Republic’s values differently.
There are currently an estimated 300 French children stranded in various displacement camps in Northeastern Syria. Deprivation of nationality of one…
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In varietate concordia? Loss of nationality in the EU
There is no such thing as a European code regulating access to (and loss of) European citizenship. Whoever wants to know how to gain or lose EU…
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