Stateless people can struggle to access the most basic human rights many of us take for granted such as education, health care, the ability to work and move freely.
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One concern is the precedent this agreement with Nauru sets for how other countries may treat refugees with criminal convictions.
The release of more than 140 ex-detainees from immigration detention has prompted a panicked government response. So, what does the legislation say, and what happens now?
The overturning of almost 20 years of legal precedent allowing indefinite detention is a watershed moment. But stateless people in Australia have few rights and little say over their futures.
When it comes to civil registrations, some states are using exclusionary mechanisms to block anyone it considers undesirable, as happened to Dominicans of Haitian descent.
New research explores the little-understood problem facing many LGBTIQ+ people — the loss of citizenship due to discriminatory laws and difficulties claiming asylum.
Australia is proposing some of the toughest citizenship stripping laws in the world as it steps up efforts to curb extremist attacks - but the proposed law could run into significant legal hurdles
Last month’s epic cave rescue has drawn attention to the issue of statelessness in Thailand - a crisis the country is trying to resolve urgently, especially for stateless children.
There are at least 400,000 stateless people living in Thailand – many of them young, like Adul. Here’s what their lives are like.
For many years, statelessness in Madagascar was spurred by racial and gender discrimination.
Top contributors
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Associate Director, Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the South African Research Chair in International Law (SARCIL), University of Johannesburg
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Lecturer, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Trinity College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin
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Senior Research Associate, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Law School, UNSW
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Lecturer in Caribbean History & Politics, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor of politics and policy, Deakin University
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Senior Research Fellow, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, School of Law & Criminology, Murdoch University
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Associate Professor, School of Law, Murdoch University
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PhD researcher, Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, The University of Melbourne