Useful Websites

UNHCR Page on Ending Statelessness: This page contains useful information about the current state of statelessness around the world as well as the UN’s efforts to end statelessness.

UNICEF Birth Registration Statistics: This page contains information about birth registration practices around the world. It also offers access to global data about birth registration, which could be a useful tool in teaching about the causes of statelessness.

Video Clips

Statelessness in Montenegro: Nusret's Story

Statelessness in Lebanon: Leal's Story

Statelessness in Côte d'Ivoire: Ali's Story

Literature Review

Batchelor, Carol A. “Statelessness and the problem of resolving nationality status.” Int’l J. Refugee L. 10 (1998): 156. (Full Text Available)

Belton, Kristy A. (2011) “The neglected non-citizen: statelessness and liberal political theory.” Journal of Global Ethics 7.1: 59-71.

Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion and the Norwegian Research Council. “Understanding statelessness in the Syria refugee context Research Report” (2016) (Full Text Available)

Jacqueline Bhabha, (2011) “From Citizen to Migrant: The Scope of Child Statelessness in the Twenty-First Century”, in ed. Jacqueline Bhabha, Children without a State: A Global Human Rights Challenge. MIT Press. (Full Text Available)

Kingston, Lindsey N. ““A Forgotten Human Rights Crisis”: Statelessness and Issue (Non) Emergence.” Human Rights Review 14.2 (2013): 73-87.

Parekh, Serena. “Beyond the ethics of admission: Stateless people, refugee camps and moral obligations.” Philosophy & Social Criticism 40.7 (2014): 645-663.

United Nations Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons (Full text available)

UN Special Report on Ending Statelessness (Full text available)