Solving statelessness /

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Imprint:	Oisterwijk, The Netherlands : Wolf Legal Publishers (WLP), [2017] ©2017
Description:	460 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Statelessness. Stateless persons Citizenship. Citizenship. Stateless persons -- Legal status, laws, etc. Statelessness.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11453895

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Other authors / contributors:	Waas, Laura van, 1981- editor. Khanna, Melanie J., editor.
ISBN:	9789462403468 9462403465
Notes:	Cover title. Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-460).
Summary:	"Interest in statelessness has been steadily increasing since the late 1990s within academia, among governments, at the UN and among civil society organisations. Research projects, mapping studies and doctrinal discussions have helped to clarify the challenges faced and our understanding of what is at stake. This has led to a fresh sense of purpose in addressing the issue and there is now a growing international movement engaged in finding solutions, spurred on by the UNHCR-led #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness by 2024. Making meaningful progress towards this goal demands a new and more ambitious approach, one that moves beyond stocktaking to inspire solutions. As Volker Türk outlines in his introduction to this ground-breaking publication: "The global debates have moved beyond the need to explain the problem and its causes and consequences. The time has come to accelerate the momentum to implement durable solutions effectively." The essays which have been collected in this edited volume all approach statelessness from a solutions perspective, looking at what is being done, and what more can be done, to address the issue. The first part of the book has a thematic focus, exploring perspectives, tools and techniques for solving statelessness which are relevant across different countries and regions. Chapters in the second part each have a regional focus, exploring region-specific challenges, developments and innovations set against the backdrop of the broader context of a global campaign to solve statelessness. With contributions from both scholars and practitioners, the book is likely to be of interest to anyone engaged in studying or implementing solutions for statelessness, including researchers, government policy-makers, staff of international or regional inter-governmental bodies and UN agencies, grass-roots and international civil society organisations, legal practitioners and advanced-level students."--Page 4 of cover.

Table of Contents:

Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1. Perspectives, Tools, and Techniques
1. Making effective use of UN human rights mechanisms to solve statelessness
2. The Sustainable Development Goals and solutions to statelessness
3. Ensuring that today's refugees are not tomorrow's stateless: solutions in a refugee context
4. Addressing statelessness through the rights to equality and non-discrimination
5. Litigating against statelessness
6. "Benchmarking" legal protection against statelessness
7. Securing every child's right to a nationality in a changing world: The nationality implications of international surrogacy
8. A fresh examination of facilitated naturalisation as a solution for stateless persons
Part 2. Regional Developments
9. The right to a nationality in Africa: New norms and new commitments
10. Towards the eradication of statelessness in the Americas: The Brazil Declaration and Plan of Action
11. Statelessness in Central Asia: From State succession to solutions
12. The search for solutions to statelessness in Southeast Asia: State practice and recent developments
13. The evolving role of the European Union in addressing statelessness
14. Efforts to prevent statelessness amongst children displaced by conflict in the Middle East and North Africa
About the contributors
Chapter abstracts
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