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The Intersection of Statelessness and Refugee Protection in US Asylum Policy

Executive Summary More than ten million people are stateless today. In a world of nation states, they live on the margins without membership in any state, and, as a consequence, have few enforceable legal rights. Stateless individuals face gaps in protection and in many cases experience persecution that falls within the refugee paradigm. However, US … Continue reading The Intersection of Statelessness and Refugee Protection in US Asylum Policy →

International Law and the Right to a Nationality in Sudan

Manby, B. (2011). International Law and the Right to a Nationality in Sudan. Africa Governance Monitoring Advocacy Project (AfriMAP) & Open Society Justice Initiative. Summary Among the many critically important choices that Sudan is facing in the context of the referendums on the status of South Sudan and Abyei are the criteria that will be established to determine … Continue reading International Law and the Right to a Nationality in Sudan →

Children’s Right to Nationality

Kohn, S. (2011). Children’s Right to Nationality. Open Society Justice Initiative. The most important international legal instrument protecting children’s right to nationality is the Convention on the Rights of the Child, given that nearly every country around the globe has signed and ratified it. Article 7 of the Convention guarantees the right of all children to acquire … Continue reading Children’s Right to Nationality →

Theorizing Refugees, Borders, Il/legality: Nation-State-Exceptions

‘Refugees’, ‘asylum seekers’, ‘illegal migrants’, ‘exiles’, ‘nomads’, ‘aliens’…others.These are all ‘in-between’ figures, exceptions to a political order defined by citizenship, borders, sovereignty and nation states. In their very existence, these figures represent a challenge to this political order, as social and political theorists have long recognized.For example, Hannah Arendt deemed stateless people ‘the most symptomatic … Continue reading Theorizing Refugees, Borders, Il/legality: Nation-State-Exceptions →