#statelessness in South Africa : 'You're invisible, you don't exist' - life without a birth certificate www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Man renounces Pakistani citizenship to acquire Chinese citizenship based on marriage to Chinese woman - application then refused because marriage deemed fake - now in #stateless limbo … macaubusiness.com/what-to-do-w...

🇮🇱 Israel has formally recognised Somaliland as an "independent and sovereign state" and signed an agreement to establish diplomatic ties between the two countries, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. ➡️ u.afp.com/S8mN

@biometricupdate.bsky.social covers my paper for Caribou digital on #statelessness and #digitalID www.biometricupdate.com/202512/build...

Et voilà commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

An update to our briefing on citizenship deprivation will be published shortly. The number of people losing British citizenship after obtaining it by fraud is at record levels (as below), but for national security reasons at rock bottom (only one case last year)

The Trump admin says it aims to file 100-200 denaturalization cases per month, a huge increase. But these cases are hard to file and win, and require a lot of DOJ resources, and the DOJ is incredibly stretched thin already. So we’ll see; I have serious doubts about their ability to do this.

In our last blog for 2025, @gaiamarcus.bsky.social reflects on whether the 'AI train' is on the right track: www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/mind-th...

Algeria’s lower house of parliament is reviewing a bill that would let the state strip some Algerians of their citizenship, including those born Algerian, for actions deemed seriously harmful to national security or unity when committed in Algeria or abroad. north-africa.com/algeria-insi...

Well, I guess that's positive at least sudantribune.com/article/308316

Out now – fully open access 🎉 The ICJ’s Climate Advisory Opinion is one of the most significant developments in international climate law. ⚖️🌍 This new volume shows why – and explores its implications for global climate governance. Get your free copy here: 👉 verfassungsblog.de/book/the-icj...

Remarkable stats on increased appeals from HO asylum decisions, explained by NAO conclusion that “decision quality remains a challenge, with 42% of sampled decisions in a rolling twelve months to May 2025 having significant or fail errors”

CJEU, border controls 🚨 MASSIVE defeat for Frontex in two judgments - the agency is liable if it assists Member States to do pushbacks etc in breach of human rights; rules of evidence are simplified for migrants curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...

Not sure what Lebanon is aiming to achieve with 'symbolic' move to grant Infantino Lebanese citizenship. As a reminder, women cannot pass Lebanese citizenship to their children if the father is foreign. Neither can women pass citizenship to a non-Lebanese husband. Address these real issues first.

Interested in BHR and accountability for environmental and human rights crimes? Follow @raid-uk.bsky.social ! (I know their work is excellent because I used to be the board chair)

New Blog Alert ❗ Kate McMillan explores the nature of the citizenship claim considered by the Waitangi Tribunal in 2025 📜⚖️ Analysing its findings and recommendations, the government's reaction, and what happens next ✒️ 📖 tinyurl.com/39v42dj2

How does cinema shape our understanding of migration? Join me for the first @mpc-eui.bsky.social seminar of next year (in-person/online), where I will share ideas based on a global dataset of 410 documentaries, films, and television series on migration. migrationpolicycentre.eu/events/?id=5...

#DigitalID proposals from the new white paper on Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection from SA Dept of Home Affairs... it's not encouraging that the actual DHA website seems to have been accidentally deleted? Except for a new application portal... www.biometricupdate.com/202512/south...

Eyal Benvenisti: The recent UNSC resolution extending the MINURSO mandate for Western Sahara "similar to the one about Gaza, poses a foundational challenge to the current international legal order and to the Westphalian notion of sovereign equality."

Interesting and nuanced discussion of migration, asylum & British citizenship by the House of Lords with @sundersays.bsky.social & @alanmanning4.bsky.social

Italy is among the European countries with the most restrictive citizenship laws for the children of immigrants born on its territory, while several other European governments are also tightening access to citizenship. Video by @artefr.bsky.social. www.arte.tv/it/videos/12...

Woman who fled rape and torture in DRC wins UK citizenship case after Home Office U-turn

Ensuring a Human Rights-Compliant End to Refugeehood through Integration, Naturalisation or Voluntary Repatriation. New thematic paper co-authored by @catbriddick.bsky.social, @profccostello.bsky.social & Minos Mouzourakis for @coe.int Read more and download: bit.ly/3N0awZa

Currently on BBC iplayer. Joyful tribute to young love and London - & an antidote to despair at current state of the world. (At least for 90 mins) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

interesting but ultimately frustrating article in Nature on determinants of 'health care seeking behaviour' among people at risk of #statelessness in Ghana. But nowhere is there a definition of what they mean by 'at risk of statelessness' www.nature.com/articles/s41...

SA government has published a revised white paper on citizenship & immigration, tightening conditions for naturalisation www.gov.za/news/speeche...

À Mayotte, les enfants d’étrangers sont refoulés de l’école, en dépit du droit Par Rémi Carayol

75 years of the ECHR ✨⚖️ A system that shaped human rights across Europe — and far beyond — now faces profound new challenges. Our new symposium with @mpil.de brings together voices from across the globe to reflect on its past, present and future. verfassungsblog.de/category/deb...

SA government has published a revised white paper on citizenship & immigration, tightening conditions for naturalisation www.gov.za/news/speeche...

"systematic patterns in how false narratives are constructed, disseminated, and weaponized against this #stateless Rohingya population" globalvoices.org/2025/12/11/w...

In our latest guest blog, Jesús Tolmo García PhD, an individual member of the Spanish Coalition on Statelessness, shares good practice and ongoing challenges on statelessness in Spain. EN: buff.ly/DI6pHYr ES: buff.ly/wix9QsE #Statelessness #Spain

Ann Skelton asks: are we witnessing a temporary budgetary glitch, or the beginning of a deeper unraveling, in which states no longer have the political will to sustain the human rights project they created? journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Why "inclusive" digital ID isn't enough. @bronwenmanby.bsky.social: "For people whose nationality is unrecognized or in doubt, being added to an identity system may not improve their legal status—and, in some cases, may entrench existing forms of exclusion." caribou.global/publications...

I wrote about this disconnect for @hrw.org back in 2001 - violent crime is endemic in SA, there’s little/no evidence that white farmers are more at risk than any others

happy human rights day to all www.un.org/en/teach/hum...

A short brief from me on #statelessness and digital identity just published by Caribou; thanks to @emryss.bsky.social & @kerenweitzberg.bsky.social for their inputs and support #legalidentity #digitalID caribou.global/publications...

Latest post from us: Visit visa requirement imposed on Nauru because of “Citizenship by Investment” scheme | Sonia Lenegan

NEW Publication featuring a great lineup of citizenship scholars!! :) “The Archipelago Capitalism of Citizenship-By-Investment”, Comparative Political Studies, lnkd.in/dQPG4Q7J @maartenpvink.bsky.social @globalcit.bsky.social @eui-ggp.bsky.social

EU home affairs ministers agreed yesterday on major changes to how asylum claims are processed. The measures still need to be negotiated with the European Parliament before they enter into force. In the meantime, this is what has been agreed upon. 🧵1/4

Reminder that nationality may exist whether or not you’ve applied for or renewed a passport. A passport is merely evidence of nationality, it does not confer it. There are millions of dual citizens in the UK, many of whom will never have held a passport for their other nationality/ies.

intriguing! one for the #statelessness reading list?

28,800 people recognized as #stateless in Germany - 17% of them born in Germany; plus close to 93,000 with “unresolved nationality”

I wrote about this disconnect for @hrw.org back in 2001 - violent crime is endemic in SA, there’s little/no evidence that white farmers are more at risk than any others

One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495

With the US Supreme Court now reviewing Trump’s attempt to curb birthright citizenship, our new open-access article examines how actors in France and the US frame *ius soli* as a ‘magnet’ for migration to justify reforms. Full text: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #BirthrightCitizenship #IusSoli

Breaking: The Supreme Court will hear whether the Trump administration's attempt to undermine birthright citizenship is unconstitutional. Here’s what to know about birthright citizenship, guaranteed by the 14th Amendment:

Switzerland: Voters Approve Electronic ID Law in National Referendum - US Library of Congress summary #digitalID #legalidentity www.loc.gov/item/global-...