People with No Nation: Statelessness and International Law
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Sept. 7, 2022
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Headlines about refugees abound, but little attention is paid to stateless persons, who are not recognized as nationals of any country. While some refugees are stateless, most stateless persons reside in the country of their birth. Denied citizenship and its attendant rights, they often live without access to identity documents and fundamental rights. This seminar discusses statelessness and the two major international conventions governing the treatment of stateless individuals: The 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and The 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. Special attention will be paid to Article I of the 1961 Convention (requiring that a state party grant its nationality to an otherwise stateless person born in the territory); the perils of renunciation; deprivation of nationality (stripping people of their citizenship); and racial, ethnic, and religious discrimination as it relates to statelessness. There will be illustrative examples from Scandinavia, the former Soviet Union (especially the Baltic states), Myanmar, Lebanon, and the Dominican Republic. The recent announcement by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that it will “define statelessness” will be discussed in light of the conventions, to which the U.S. is not a party, and international law more broadly. This seminar is for anyone interested in human rights, international law, migration, citizenship (including renunciation), conflict of laws, and treaty compliance.
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