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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"statelessness"”.
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The Great Divide: Citizenship And Statelessness
… how the acquisition of citizenship and statelessness are both State-determined statuses. The repercussions of statelessness at the individual, regional and global levels are presented to demonstrate the severity of being unable to choose a citizenship. Efforts made by States and the …
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An exploration of statelessness in Namibia: The significance of legal citizenship
This exploratory study looks at statelessness in Namibia, focusing on citizenship as a legal status. The study uses the theory of politics of citizenship to assess how the issue of statelessness fits into citizenship discourse in Namibian. It defines the problems presented by statelessness and …
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Citizens Excepted: Limits of Belonging and Statelessness in The United States
<p>In sociological literature, the condition of statelessness is marked by the inability or unwillingness of the state to protect its citizens from political violence. Refugees are those excepted from the state. Their precarity invites sympathy and hostility from the international community. By …
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Climate change and statelessness in South Africa: current laws and future development
… is the relationship between climate change and statelessness. To be stateless means that a person is not recognised as a national of any state under the operation of its law. The exact number of stateless persons worldwide is unknown given that many stateless people are ‘invisible', yet the …
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Childhood statelessness in Kenya: an appraisal of legislative compliance with international human rights law obligations
Childhood statelessness is a global concern because statelessness occurs in all the continents. A ‘stateless child’ refers to a child who is not legally recognised as a citizen of any state under its citizenship laws. In Kenya, childhood statelessness arises in both non-migratory and migratory …
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Ending childhood statelessness by 2024: a consideration of South Africa's laws and policies in light of the United Nations High Commisisoner for refugees #ibelong campaign
… 10 million people globally that are Statelessness and there are several reasons for why children in South Arica are stateless. One of the major causes of statelessness is due to the gaps in laws, policies and practices that deny an individual the right to a nationality, at birth or …
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Eradicating statelessness: universal birth registration as a means of realising the right to name and nationality in Zambia
… efficacy of Zambia's legal framework concerning statelessness, birth registration, the right to name, identity and acquisition of nationality. The research determines that Zambia's legal framework does not protect stateless persons. Neither does it provide for the right to nationality, nor …
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Identity without citizenship: towards a global uniform registration system for the stateless
For political and other reasons, statelessness or the lack of any citizenship has affected millions of people around the world, depriving many of them of many rights that other people take for granted, such as the right to legal residence, to travel and to work. In recent years, the international …
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The European Union and the Politics of Migration: An Interdisciplinary Examination of the Intersections of Migration, Citizenship and Statelessness
… that place the issues of migration and statelessness at the centre of the discussion. This dissertation presents an interdisciplinary analysis of a larger migration crisis that speaks to (and threatens) the heart of the project of European integration, from the integration of national …
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Is South African Refugee Law creating a stateless generation?
… these rights and thus, a lack of nationality, or statelessness, often carries dire consequences. Furthermore, regardless of international, regional and domestic laws protecting the right to a nationality, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that more than 10 million …
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Undocumented migration, the fourteenth amendment and the enduring battle over who counts
… citizenship and immigration, but it is about statelessness as well. Rather than focus on citizenship and the attainment of certain liberties, this thesis examines statelessness as the actual condition of possibility for exclusion as part of the conversation about citizenship. </p>
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Undocumented and Invisible: Are SADC Member States Implementing the Rights to Birth Registration and Nationality for Migrant Children?
… This greatly increases their risks of statelessness, which opens the way to abuse, exploitation, trafficking, and the inability to claim their human rights. Birth registration represents one of the main protections undocumented children have in avoiding statelessness, as this reduces …
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Stateless (bidoon) children in Kuwait and the right to education
… understand how families with the status of statelessness navigate their lives and provide education and opportunities for their children. My goal is to shed light on the lived experiences of Bidoon children and families, and to propose political and policy solutions to the problems around …
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Nowhere people: making the invisible, visible
… (2005-2016). It reveals as well the impact statelessness has on individuals and communities around the world. Given the interdisciplinary nature of this topic, the statement will employ methods of auto-ethnography as well as theories of state, human rights, memory and identity in order to …
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Narratives of Citizenship in the German Novel, 1926-1959
… as well as the conscious production of statelessness under National Socialism. In the final chapter, in which I discuss Uwe Johnson’s Mutmassungen über Jakob (1959), I explore the nexus between socialist citizenship, ideologies of progress, and phenomena of psycho-social division. The …
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Citizenship, exile, and natural rights in medieval Roman law, ca. 1200-1400
… being merely a human person with natural rights (statelessness, in modem terminology). My findings allow me to revise existing narratives about citizenship and natural rights in medieval Roman law. I argue that citizenship was not fundamentally contractual, and that it was primarily (if not …
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Postcolonial Trauma in the Mediterranean: The Italian-Libyan Transnational Community
… Sephardi Jews of Libya, due to their permanent statelessness, through Victor Magiar’s novel (inspired by his childhood in Libya) E venne la notte. Chapter Three highlights the intellectual exile of Andrea Amedeo Sammartano, focusing on the way he identifies as Libyan rather than Italian through …
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Rohingyas in Bangladesh: Owning Rohingya Identity in Disowning Spaces
… with forming their identity. Their liminality, statelessness, and lack of rights have created an unsettled and hybrid form of identity for many youth and youth adults living within and outside the refugee camps. In this dissertation, I first describe the lives of Rohingya refugees, then I …
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Visions of their Land: Młoda Polska & The Making of Landscape
… and its construction during this period of statelessness.</p> <p>Trained internationally and working across partition lines, Young Poland produced landscape art as a central part of their artistic practice. Despite this, the topic has received little focused attention in scholarship. Rather, …
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Unrecognized Citizenship: Statehood and the Oppression of Nonrecognition
… statuses that exist between full citizenship and statelessness.
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