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Statelessness
About: Statelessness is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 781 publications have been published within this topic receiving 6856 citations. The topic is also known as: stateless.
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TL;DR: Statelessness is a problem of significant but unknown magnitude in West Africa as mentioned in this paper, and it is not possible to say how many people are stateless in the sub-region; but it is certain that many hundreds of thousands of people are at risk of statelessness.
Abstract: Statelessness is a problem of significant but unknown magnitude in West Africa. It is not possible to say how many people are stateless in the sub-region; but it is certain that many hundreds of thousands of people are at risk of statelessness. That is, there is a possibility or probability that they are “not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law”. This study seeks to show why this is important, both for the rights of the individuals affected and for the stability and effectiveness of the states where they live; to provide a comparative analysis of nationality law in the region and highlight the gaps that allow statelessness; to identify the populations at risk of statelessness and the reasons why statelessness is so prevalent, in particular the links between statelessness and migration; and to make recommendations for the remedies that may address the problem both at national and regional level. These recommendations are directed to actions that may be taken by the institutions of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and by Member States acting within the ECOWAS framework of agreements on free movement, as well as by UN, IOM, and other international agencies.
TL;DR: The stateless of German origin in Belgium discovered their legal status during the First World War as mentioned in this paper, an anomaly at a time when nations were fighting each other at gun-point.
Abstract: During the First World War, statelessness erupted suddenly – an anomaly at a time when nations were fighting each other at gunpoint. The stateless of German origin in Belgium discovered their legal...
TL;DR: Jangkhomang Guite, Against State, Against History: Freedom, Resistance, and Statelessness in Upland Northeast India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2019, 302 pp., ₹1095 as discussed by the authors .
Abstract: Jangkhomang Guite, Against State, Against History: Freedom, Resistance, and Statelessness in Upland Northeast India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2019, 302 pp., ₹1095.