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📚Don't miss our 25 standout resources from 2025! 🚀 Curated to inspire, inform, and ignite action in the #statelessness field. Dive in and discover the year's most impactful tools and insights! 👉🏽 bit.ly/4riUuZn

Statelessness, watercolours and ink: Zahra Marwan Zahra Marwan is the winner of last year’s UN International Art Contest: Minority Artists Working on Statelessness Themes. She was born to a Kuwaiti mother and a stateless father and she identifies as a member of the Ayam minority in Kuwait. Working as a traditional artist with watercolour and ink, Zahra creates work that reflects her cultural roots in Kuwait as well as her life now in Albuquerque, New Mexico (United States of America). She loves poetry and independent cinema and how quiet and mysterious the night is. She is deeply fond of the sea. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New Mexico in Languages and Literature, with a minor in Flamenco Dance and History as well as a minor in Philosophy. She has loved working with museums, non-profits, theatre companies and cultural centres and has found making picture books to be dreamier than she had dreamed them to be! Her debut picture book ‘Where Butterflies Fill the Sky’ was published by Bloomsbury Books in 2022 and named one of the New York Times / New York Public Library Best Illustrated books as well as NPR’s Best Books of 2022.

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Apply NOW for a full scholarship to the MA in Human Rights by distance learning!!!

Applicants must already have been offered a place on our MA Programme so please apply by 16 March: www.london.ac.uk/study/course...

can't help, but this is useful users.sussex.ac.uk/~grahamh/RM1...

In our latest guest blog, Mia Dambach and Deneisha Moss reflect on the work of the Identity Rights Working Group (IDRWG) in collaborating to safeguard children's identity rights.

The importance of this work has only grown in the context of the UN’s ongoing liquidity crisis.

UNHCR supported 31,010 South Sudanese returnees from Sudan to establish identity documentation and nationality certification in 2023-25 - good but a small % of the total I imagine #legalidentity www.unhcr.org/africa/news/...

Trump says white South Africans are persecuted; some are returning to a better life Andrew Veitch left South Africa after being held up at gunpoint in his car. But now he feels there are greater threats in the United States, ​he said, citing mass shootings in public places as well as...

White South Africans returning home - despite Trump's claims of persecution...
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'Home' at last: Ghana grants citizenship to 150 members of African diaspora Tightly holding her citizenship certificate against her chest, Patrice Ann Robertson wiped away a tear; she's now officially Ghanaian nearly a decade after she started living in the west African count...

150 members of the African diaspora (mainly African Americans) formally granted Ghanaian citizenship on Monday #citizenshipinafrica
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Poland reported the arrest of a Belarusian "thief-in-law". But it's unclear what to do with him next

New concept to me: status of 'thief-in-law' -- leaders of organised crime groups from former Soviet Union countries -- and citizenship deprivation possible for those who have this status, rendering them stateless & unreturnable from another country nashaniva.com/en/390035

Citizenship in the global struggles for democracy This Special Issue explores the interplay between citizenship and democratic hardships in a global context. The ten contributions to this collection reflect on the range of contestations of citizen...

Very pleased to announce the publication of our recent special issue on "Citizenship in the global struggles for democracy", co-edited with Jelena Džankić and Szabolcs Pogonyi @scmrjems.bsky.social @lsemethodology.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Report: Cobalt Mine Supplying Major Western Automakers Is Allegedly Poisoning Communities, Displacing Thousands - EIA A new report alleges that CMOC Group Limited (CMOC), the world’s largest cobalt producer, has poisoned local air, triggered a public health crisis, broken national laws and displaced more than 10,000 ...

OUT TODAY: New report 'Toxic Transition' raises serious concerns about pollution linked to the TFM industrial copper–cobalt mine in Kolwezi, DRC. Nearby communities report respiratory illness, nosebleeds and miscarriages. More ⬇️ eia.org/press-releas...

Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Amendment Bill put forward by MP for Kilifi County recently registered by the National Assembly proposes to remove the (expired) time limit for application for citizenship by #stateless persons citizenshiprightsafrica.org/kenyan-citiz...

@globalcit.bsky.social report summarising recent citizenship law developments in 12 Eastern European EU member & candidate states shows how citizenship policy is increasingly shaped by security concerns, particularly in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine hdl.handle.net/1814/94610

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New country report on the citizenship law of Cape Verde by Patricia Jeronimo for @globalcit.bsky.social
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Latest articles from Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Browse the latest articles and research from Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

New JEMS Special Issue: Citizenship in the Global Struggles for Democracy edited by @jdzankic.bsky.social Eleanor Knott & Szabolcs Pogonyi - articles on Abkhazia, Taiwan, Kenya & Tanzania, Kosovo & Albania, Kuwait, India, Moldova, Hungary, and Serbia & Montenegro
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjms20/0/0

In this current harsh world, let's warm a few hearts remembering the events of 7-8 March 1991, when the 90,000 people of Brindisi woke up to find 25,000 Albanians roaming the streets of their town. For perspective, that's roughly equivalent to 25k people suddenly landing in Hastings [Thread] >> 1

Three men deported by US file legal case against Eswatini over detention The men, sent to Africa after completing criminal sentences in the US, are from Cuba, Jamaica and Yemen

Complaint filed with the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights in relation to three men originally from Jamaica, Yemen and Cuba deported to Eswatini from the US
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How artificial intelligence is industrialising digital identity fraud across Africa As Africa’s digital economy grows, fraud is scaling with it. A new report shows AI now drives most biometric fraud, while attacks increasingly target logins and account actions rather than onboarding.

Who could possibly have predicted techpoint.africa/insight/how-...

Quite the result for the US.

Completely counter-intuitive results on UK party political children's book preferences

This just isn't true. The 1951 convention requires state parties to facilitate the integration and naturalisation of refugees because the people who drafted it weren't moral vacuums or stupid enough to think that persecution that made people flee for their lives would magically go away in a year.

‘In the face of death, we are all equal’: Ukraine’s Roma fight for recognition for those serving in war With many lacking official documentation or unable to speak Ukrainian, the families of men killed in action are struggling to get the compensation they are owed

#Stateless Ukrainian soldiers struggling for recognition
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What is more important, democratisation or ethnographic security? Through the case of #Abkhazia, I argue that the latter will have a higher salience in places with contested nation- and state-building projects.
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CFP: Special Issue of Moral Philosophy & Politics on "Citizenship and Global Inequality".

Please consider sharing & submitting. Open to interdisciplinary work that engages with philosophical debates.

#migcitsky #poltheory #philsky

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In less good news from Belgium... www.loc.gov/item/global-...

Belgian court annuls nationality revocations for children of Palestinian origin emnbelgium.be/news/belgian...

Meanwhile, citizenship struggles continue in Syria: “As Damascus issues a decree granting long-denied citizenship to Kurds, its forces lay siege to Kurdish-administered territory while Kurds' allies remain silent” - Thomas McGee
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Biometric IDs are being rolled out in Africa. Study reveals the risks and pitfalls Digital identification is supposed to provide identity to all people. But sometimes it blocks access to essential services.

Tony Roberts @ids.ac.uk summarises African Digital Rights Network report on #digitalID in Africa for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/biometric-id...

Written statements - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.

Here's Mahmood's written statement to Parliament on changes to the treatment of refugees - as morally bankrupt and evidence-free as you might expect.

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