In this blog post, Solomon Oseghale Momoh summarises his PhD research on the gaps in the nationality law and policy of Nigeria, with a particular focus on safeguards for people exposed to the risk of statelessness. Momoh emphasises the need to transpose the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons into domestic law and, crucially, the need for Nigeria to develop a statelessness determination procedure. Read More …

This blog articles introduces the ISI Global Seminar Series on Citizenship Stripping, which aim to unpack and understand the background of and problems around deprivation of nationality. Each of the Seminars presents a different perspective by key experts on the issue, and is accompanied by a Lecture & Debate Kit. Read More …

Chris Nash (European Network on Statelessness). This blogpost was originally published as an editorial on the European Network on Statelessness website. Since founding in 2014, strategic litigation has always been a priority for the European Network on Statelessness (ENS) and its Read More …

Highlighting a recently published article, we analyse South American and European countries’ governance of human mobility during the pandemic the first half of 2020, its effect on migrants, and how it moved the concepts of borders and citizenship into some uncharted territories.

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In the European Union (EU) the issue of citizenship can be brought to the supranational level because the citizenship of EU Member States is also EU citizenship. This provides certain opportunities for engaging the norms and principles of EU law, such as the principle of proportionality. However, ethnic and other nationalisms undermine the application of the principle of proportionality as regards access to and loss of citizenship.

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The ISI Database on Statelessness and Human Rights is a new user-friendly tool that offers easy access to recommendations on statelessness and the right to a nationality, issued within the UN human rights system. This blog explains how it can help to strengthen knowledge of and engagement with human rights standards.

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A recent decision by the Cherokee Nation’s Supreme Court struck down a law that freedmen – descendants of people enslaved by Cherokees in the 18th and 19th centuries – cannot hold elective tribal office. The ruling is the latest development of a long struggle between the Cherokee Nation and the federal government over which has the power to determine who should be considered a tribal citizen, and which culture’s values should be most important in that determination.

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