Manby, Bronwen 
ORCID: 0000-0002-7027-0431
(2025)
Statelessness.
In: Chetail, Vincent, (ed.)
Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Migration and Asylum Law.
Elgar Concise Encyclopedias in Law.
Edward Elgar, 557 - 564.
ISBN 9781802204148
Abstract
Statelessness is the status of those people who are not legally recognized as nationals of any state. Statelessness first emerged as an international concern with the reordering of the international state system following the First World War, and gained greater attention following the Second World War. The United Nations adopted specific treaties on the protection of stateless persons and on the reduction of statelessness, as well as including the right to a nationality within the major human rights conventions. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has taken up its mandate for stateless persons with increasing seriousness in the twenty-first century. Outstanding challenges relate to the definition of stateless person – and the consequent difficulty of assessing the number of stateless persons, statelessness created by arbitrary deprivation and denial of nationality, and discrimination in access to nationality on the grounds of race, ethnicity, or religion.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | © The Editor and Contributing Authors Severally 2025 |
| Divisions: | Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa |
| Subjects: | K Law > K Law (General) J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Nov 2025 12:06 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Dec 2025 08:54 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/130237 |
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