Stateless Citizenship and the Palestinian-Arabs in Israel
Molavi, S. C. (2009). Stateless citizenship and the Palestinian-Arabs in Israel. Refuge. 26(2). 19-28. Abstract This paper will focus on Israels system of government with specific attention to the idea of citizenship and to its Palestinian-Arab citizenry. It will begin with a historical and political background of Palestinian-Arab citizens, along with an examination of their … Continue reading Stateless Citizenship and the Palestinian-Arabs in Israel →
Mutations in Citizenship
Ong, A. (2006). Mutations in Citizenship. Theory, Culture & Society. 23(2-3). 499-505. Abstract Mutations in citizenship are crystallized in an ever-shifting landscape shaped by the flows of markets, technologies, and populations. We are moving beyond the citizenship-versus-statelessness model. First, the elements of citizenship (rights, entitlements, etc.) are becoming disarticulated from each other, and becoming re-articulated with universalizing criteria … Continue reading Mutations in Citizenship →
Buried Alive: Stateless Kurds in Syria
Lynch, M. & Ali, P. (2006). Buried alive: Stateless Kurds in Syria. Refugee International. Introduction Stateless Kurds in Syria are virtually invisible people. Numbering about 300,000, this group is in a unique situation in relation to the larger Kurdish population. There are no exact figures for the number of Kurds in Syria because of the political implications of over- or underestimation, … Continue reading Buried Alive: Stateless Kurds in Syria →
Dominicans of Haitian Descent and the Compromised Right to Nationality: Report Presented to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on the Occasion of its 140th Session
Open Society Justice (2010). Dominicans of Haitian Descent and the compromised right to nationality: Report presented to the Inter-American Commission on human rights on the occasion of its 140th session. Introduction The right to nationality is one of the most critical of human rights. Although in theory few rights such as to hold national … Continue reading Dominicans of Haitian Descent and the Compromised Right to Nationality: Report Presented to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on the Occasion of its 140th Session →
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 →
The Excluded: The strange hidden world of the stateless
The Excluded: The strange hidden world of the stateless, Refugees Magazine, No. 147, Issue 3, 2007
Citizenship undone
Volpp, L. (2007). Citizenship undone. Fordham Law Review. 75(5). 2579-2586.
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 →
