The international framework for statelessness

Global Partnership, Eradicate Poverty, Gender Equality, Refugees and Statelessness, Citizenship, International Protection, Achieve Primary Education, Reduce Child Mortality, Improve maternal health

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UNU-GCM

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Although international law and policy relating to statelessness arose in parallel to that relating to refugee status, the two protection regimes have developed differently. This project examines the development of the notion of statelessness in the international legal framework, and how this relates to two developing areas of particular concern to enabling the protection of stateless persons. These are: detention and private companies in migration control.

This research project is part of UNU-GCM’s research programme “Statelessness and Transcontinental Migration”, and its principal investigator is Dr Tendayi Bloom, research fellow at UNU-GCM.
This research project has among its outputs:
- Intervention in UN High Level Dialogue Second Interactive Round Table (http://gcm.unu.edu/index.php/news/192-private-migration-enforcement-and-vulnerable-migrants-unu-gcm-intervention-now-available)
- Policy Report: Problematizing the Conventions on Statelessness (UNU-GCM 02/01)
- Policy Report: Immigration detention and stateless persons (UNU-GCM 02/03)
- Extended Policy Report: The use of private companies to enforce migration control measures and the effect on stateless persons (UNU-GCM 02/04)
- Presentation at IS Academy Final Conference, ‘Migration and Development A World In Motion’, 22-24 January 2014
Tendayi Bloom
bloom@unu.edu