A stateless person is an individual ‘who is not considered as a national by any State under the operation of its law’. In other words, a stateless individual is a person who does not legally belong anywhere. No government is responsible for his or her rights, survival or existence. Stateless people are forced to lead an illegal life and are highly vulnerable to increased ostracism, discrimination and insecurity. Where citizenship is the norm, statelessness is an exceptional phenomenon. Some people are stateless because of ethnic persecution; others lost their citizenship during reformation of the state; some simply fell between the cracks of citizenship laws; and others passed on their statelessness to their children. National citizenship provides people with a sense of identity and is a key to full participation in society (UNHCR, 2012:2). Since only ‘citizens’ are allowed an unrestricted right to enter and reside in a country under international law, stateless people are often left without any residence permit and are subject to repeated or continuous detention. The purpose of this project is to analyse and establish the importance of a ‘right to have rights’ or citizenship by examining and evaluating the plight of existing stateless people in Latvia, Estonia and Myanmar. The study explores the human rights conditions created due to statelessness, adequacy of international organisations’ response to such situations and potency of current legal framework for the protection of stateless individuals.
Part One: Why Statelessness?
Chapter 1: Introduction
I. Research question and design
II. Defining concepts
III. Relevance
Chapter 2: Statelessness and ‘right to have rights’
I. Human rights with or without citizenship
II. Problematising Statelessness
III. Causes of statelessness
Chapter 3: Existing international legal framework
Part Two: Case study and analyses
Chapter 4: Case Studies
I. Rohingyas in Myanmar
II. Russian-speaking minority in Latvia and Estonia
Chapter 5: Against Statelessness: The Argument for Right to Have Rights
I. Answers to research questions
II. Policy and theoretical implications
III. Limitations and further questions
IV. Conclusion
Bibliography
- Citation du texte
- Arshi Aggarwal (Auteur), 2014, Statelessness and ‘right to have rights’. Importance of citizenship in protecting human rights of stateless communities, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/286323
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