Using Litigation to End Statelessness
In this blogpost, Chria Nash presents the new Statelessness Case Law Database created by the European Network on Statelessness.
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Pandemic Mobility Restrictions and Citizenship Rights in Flux
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.
Statelessness, Proportionality and Access to (EU) Citizenship
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.
Justice for Windrush? Reasonableness and Race in Howard
The case of Hubert Howard is illustrative of the broader injustices suffered by members of the ‘Windrush generation’ at the hands of the UK state. A recent decision by the England and Wales High Court offers some (partial) redress.
Introducing the New ISI Database on Statelessness and Human Rights
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.
Who gets Cherokee citizenship has long been a struggle between the tribe and the US government
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.
The UK’s franchise jigsaw puzzle grows from 500 pieces to 1000
It has been widely observed that the population of the UK has turned to jigsaws as a pastime during lockdown. What is perhaps less well known is the extent to which the body of rules governing the right to vote in the UK resembles a jigsaw puzzle. Recent developments have seen this puzzle grow in size and complexity.
Statelessness in Southeast Asia: Causes and Responses
Around 40 per cent of the identified stateless population of the world live in the Asia Pacific region, with Southeast Asia harbouring the largest stateless populations. This blog maps some of the predominant causes of statelessness in the region, and gives an overview of states’ responses to this intractable problem.
Constitutional reform in Mexico: no limits to ius sanguinis
Constitutional amendment will lead Mexico to apply both unrestricted ius soli and unrestricted ius sanguinis in citizenship attribution. However, details on the implications of this reform and the procedural matters involved are not clear as of yet.
Shamima Begum before the Supreme Court: deepening legal holes
In February 2021, the Supreme Court decided that Shamima Begum should not be allowed back into the UK to conduct her appeal against the deprivation of her citizenship. This decision is a victory for discretionary use of expansive state powers under minimal judicial scrutiny.