Immigration regularisation and Sahrawi statelessness in Spain: the legal debate versus political pressure The exclusion of stateless persons from the new extraordinary process is based on technical criteria, not geopolitical decisions Statelessness and Sahrawi na...

Analysis of the exclusion of Sahrawis from Spain's proposals for immigration regulation, arguing that 'the decree’s design is based on regulatory logic, not on a stance in international politics.' #WesternSahara #statelessness
www.atalayar.com/en/opinion/i...

Law Library of US Congress is hosting an online webinar on nationality law in the DRC - presenter is Louis Gilbert, foreign law specialist at LOC; here's the registration link loc.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi...

Au Burkina Faso, la junte au pouvoir suspend près de 360 associations En juillet 2025, le capitaine Ibrahim Traoré a promulgué une loi qui restreint la liberté d’association et affaiblit la société civile, sous prétexte de lutter contre le blanchiment d’argent et le fin...

Burkina Faso : la junte suspend 359 associations après la dissolution de 118 autres, en grande partie engagées dans la défense des droits humains. Son chef, le capitaine Ibrahim Traoré, a déclaré que les Burkinabés devaient « oublier la démocratie ». www.lemonde.fr/afrique/arti...

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CERD Committee finds North Macedonia discriminated in relation to freedom of movement by passport confiscations that disproportionately impacted its Roma citizens docstore.ohchr.org/SelfServices...

South Africa and Lesotho agree that IDs are enough to cross the border Basotho who have been barred from South Africa for overstaying will be granted amnesty

How about this: An entirely sensible and constructive immigration management solution for South Africa-Lesotho travel and work groundup.org.za/article/leso...

Pakistan Affirms the Retroactive Right of Pakistani Women to Confer Nationality on Their Children on an Equal Basis with Men Pakistan Affirms the Retroactive Right of Pakistani Women to Confer Nationality on Their Children on an Equal Basis with Men Imkaan Welfare Organisation, the Statelessness and Dignified Citizenship Co...

Good.

www.equalnationalityrights.org/261185-2/

💥Introducing our #Strategy 2026–2030: Catalysing change with and for stateless people. We believe #change comes through collective action, led by those directly affected, challenging #injustice at its roots. Read more 👉 files.institutesi.org/ISI_STRATEGY...

MakerSpace The Senate House MakerSpace facilitates knowledge exchange, capacity building and training.

Perhaps Digital Humanities MakerSpace @sas-news.bsky.social ? - though Senate House so central rather than south
www.sas.ac.uk/about-us/ins...

Born here. Unrecognized.

Unregistered Americans lack proof of identity & access to basic rights. This is how statelessness happens.

New reporting by The Guardian

🔗www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2...

Book Launch: Migrating Borders and Citizenship in Law by Devyani Prabhat

Join @bronwenmanby.bsky.social, Sharon Cowan, Ruvi Ziegler & me today at IALS for the launch of Devyani Prabhat’s fantastic new @uolpress.bsky.social book Migrating Borders and Citizenship in Law. Chaired by IALS Director Carl Stychin. @ials.bsky.social

All welcome!

ials.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Climate cosmopolitanism: broadening and deepening citizenship in response to the climate crisis Citizenship can be understood as a legal status of membership in a polity or as a practice oriented towards the common good of political communities. This paper examines how the climate crisis impa...

Rainer Baubock: "although the climate crisis will feed into migration flows within and across states, these are unlikely to generate or require structural changes of citizenship status.... The exception is the case of Pacific Island states...."
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

au.int/en/pressrele...

www.arabnews.com/node/2640392...

72. Assassinations: law, targetting and the changing nature of war In this episode of Called to the Bar: International Law Over Drinks, Tamsin Phillipa Paige (Deakin Law School) and Douglas Guilfoyle (UNSW Canberra) are joined by Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg (LSE) and

New episode of #CalledToTheBar: assassination in international law.

Tamsin Paige, Douglas Guilfoyle, Alonso Gurmendi & Emma Lush unpack drone strikes, target lists. Has killing individuals has become the “new black” in statecraft? And what does the law actually say?

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For Roma families in Montenegro, no ID means no doctor, no work, no school. 🛑 New reforms aim to break this "vicious cycle" of statelessness, but promises mean nothing without execution. Until an ID is in hand, the cycle continues.
www.errc.org/news/beyond-... #RomaRights #Montenegro #Statelessness

More than half of Windrush compensation claims rejected by Home Office, report finds Data shows only a third of concluded claims in scheme for those wrongly classed as illegal migrants resulted in pay outs

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Testing the Applicability of EU Law Abroad: The Italy–Albania Protocol in the Comeri, Sidilli, and Sedrata Hearings Eleonora Celoria , Post-doctoral researcher, FIERI Andreina De Leo *, Post-doctoral researcher, Maastricht University Marcella Ferri ,...

Does the Italy/Albania asylum deal breach EU law?
Report from and analysis of the latest CJEU hearings on the issue, by Eleonora Celoria, @andreinadeleo.bsky.social and Marcella Ferri eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/04/test...

Request for a Certificate of Non-Existence Department of Homeland Security U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Earlier today I was reminded of one of the most metaphysical government documents that exists.

Citizenship is a Right, Not a Political Tool - The Elephant If it appears that citizenship by birth can be granted to groups on the basis of discretion and not as a legal right, that can undermine the perceived authority of the constitution and the rule of law...

Obviously this is good news for the Pare, but the whole process of recognising 'tribes of Kenya' is quite problematic, see: www.theelephant.info/analysis/202...

Seems action already being taken: citizenshiprightsafrica.org/en/kenya-gov...

Kenya National Assembly Public Petitions Committee recommends that the Ministry of Interior and National Administration "finalizes evaluation of recognition of the Pare
Peoples of Kenya as a tribe" citizenshiprightsafrica.org/en/report-on...

CitizenshipRightsAfrica.org website search and other functions back up and running (more or less) after several months of breakdown. Thanks to Compufreak.co.za

Africa as a Success Story: Political Organization in Pre-Colonial Africa Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Political Organization in Pre-Colonial Africa by Soeren J. Henn & James A. Robinson: "In 1880 there were probably 45,000 independent polities which were rarely organized on ethnic lines. At most 2% of these could be classified as states." www.nber.org/papers/w34546

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'Sinking Sovereignty: The Legal Vacuum for Climate-Displaced Populations in the South Pacific and Bangladesh' by Radia Nowsin

Available here: rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/04/15/s...

#Bangladesh
#ClimateRefugees
#ClimateDisplacement
#Displacement
#Statelessness

Brontosaurus, obvs

Of Interest: Botswana 🇧🇼 Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 Burundi 🇧🇮 Central African Republic 🇨🇫 Chad 🇹🇩 Comoros 🇰🇲 Republic of the Congo 🇨🇬 Djibouti 🇩🇯 Eritrea 🇪🇷 Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶 Gabon 🇬🇦 Guinea-Conakry 🇬🇳 Lesotho 🇱🇸 Liberia 🇱🇷 Mauritania 🇲🇷 Mauritius 🇲🇺 São Tomé and Príncipe 🇸🇹 Niger 🇳🇪 Seychelles 🇸🇨 Somalia 🇸🇴 South Sudan 🇸🇸

afropages.fr afropages.fr - Sahara marocain : La République de Sao Tomé-et-Principe soutient la marocanité du Sahara et appuie le plan d’autonomie sous souveraineté marocaine com [RNA]

🇷🇼 Sahara marocain : La République de Sao Tomé-et-Principe soutient la marocanité du Sahara et appuie le plan d’autonomie sous souveraineté marocaine com [RNA] #Afropages

Most Syrians in Germany are there to stay Sending back masses of immigrants would be foolish and impossible

Almost a quarter of a million Syrians in Germany have naturalised in recent years; hundreds of thousands more will do so. The notion that they should be sent back, as the German chancellor has suggested, is implausible