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ENS Publishes Analysis and Recommendations for Implementation of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum

We’ve developed new analysis and recommendations on implementation of new EU Migration & Asylum Pact provisions concerning the identification and…
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Raising the Bar: Enhancing Statelessness-Focused Country of Origin Information

In February 2024, the UK Home Office released many reports covering inspections carried out by the former Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and…
/ Emily Wilbourn, Programme Manager, Asylos
Nina Gregori Interviews

Interview with Nina Gregori, Executive Director of the European Union Agency for Asylum

Earlier this month, we spoke with Nina Gregori, Executive Director of the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA), about the Agency’s multifaceted…
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Refugee Action's Experts by Experience podcast spotlights statelessness

ENS recently partnered with Refugee Action's Experts by Experience podcast to spotlight the issue of statelessness. 
Webinar Events

WEBINAR: Improving identification of statelessness in asylum registration and screening

The first event in our #StatelessJourneys webinar series on Identifying and Addressing Statelessness in the Refugee Context. The webinar from 8 March…
08 March 2023 13:00 - 13:45 CET
Gran Canaria Airport, Spain by Yeray Sánchez via Unsplash. Blog

Stateless people at the border: the scenario in Spain

La versión en español de este blog está disponible aquí.  In terms of support offered to stateless people, in many respects Spain has some of Europe…
/ Jesús Tolmo García, Visiting Researcher at the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) & PhD Candidate
Gran Canaria Airport, Spain by Yeray Sánchez via Unsplash. Blog

Apátridas en la frontera, el caso español

En materia de apoyo ofrecido a las personas apátridas, España, en bastantes aspectos, cuenta con algunos ejemplos de buenas prácticas. Sin embargo,…
/ Jesús Tolmo García, Investigador visitante en el Instituto de Apatridia e Inclusión (ISI), doctorando en derecho internacional
Ukrainian refugees crossing the border into Poland. Photo: Mirek Pruchnicki; Creative Commons Editorial

Amidst the unspeakable awfulness of the conflict in Ukraine we should not forget the particular protection needs of stateless people

As the number of refugees fleeing Ukraine nears two million, we and our members on the ground have been mobilising to try to get a handle on the…
/ Chris Nash, Director of the European Network on Statelessness
Handbook on European law relating to asylum, borders and immigration Blog

FRA-ECtHR updated Handbook on European law relating to asylum, borders and immigration: Helping to implement fundamental rights safeguards

European law relating to asylum, borders and immigration is developing fast. The European Convention on Human Rights and European Union (EU) law both…
/ Andreina De Leo, Early Stage Researcher, Maastricht University Faculty of Law; former trainee at the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights
Syria's Palestinians Blog

‘Syria’s Palestinians: A new Nakba’

Palestinian refugees from Syria are among those most impacted by the country’s brutal 10-year conflict. A new report documents the secondary forced…
/ Tom Rollins, Independent researcher working on Syria and displacement
Behind walls Blog

Navigating intersecting statelessness: Syrian Kurds in Europe

This blog examines the experiences of stateless Syrian Kurds in Europe by looking at how they’ve navigated asylum bureaucracies and their specific…
/ Thomas McGee (PhD researcher at Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, University of Melbourne Law School) and Haqqi Bahram (PhD researcher at REMESO - Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society, Linköping University)
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Statelessness and the EU Pact on Asylum and Migration: Analysis and Recommendations

Read our updated analysis from June 2023 here.  This analysis focuses on the impact the proposals set out by the European Commission in September…
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