Essays about: "Statelessness and human rights"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 11 essays containing the words Statelessness and human rights.

1. 6. Citizenship in Return for Allegiance - A Study on the Facilitated Naturalization of Undocumented Stateless Persons in Sweden

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

   Author : Jennifer Kyllergård; [2018]
   Keywords : folkrätt; public international law; international law; komparativ rätt; comparative law; citizenship; nationality; naturalization; facilitated naturalization; acquisition; stateless; statelessness; stateless person; undocumented; undocumented stateless person; identity; identity requirement; passport; identity document; identity card; denaturalization; revocation of citizenship; revocation; deprivation; Sweden; United States of America; United States; U.S.; Swedish Citizenship Act; Immigration and Nationality Act; right to a nationality; human rights; U.S. Constitution; Bill of Rights; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Following the UNHCR:s launch of the #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness by 2024 in November 2014, a Global Action Plan to End Statelessness: 2014 – 2024 was adopted urging states to undertake ten actions to end statelessness, including to facilitate the naturalization of stateless migrants. While the facilitated naturalization of stateless persons would certainly reduce the occurrence of statelessness and its consequences, states remain reluctant to lower the standards of naturalization for stateless persons for various reasons. READ MORE

3. 7. "Where do I belong, when they call me a foreigner in my homeland?"

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Klara Nilsson Berge; [2016]
   Keywords : nation-state; citizenship; Arendt; Stateless; human rights; nationality; refugee; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the situation of people living in statelessness by asking 'What is statelessness?' With the aim of contributing to the contemporary understanding of the topic, the text reviews both the resonating theories of Hannah Arendt, as well as original interviews with people living in statelessness today. In accordance with recent critique directed towards the Arendtian school on statelessness, the readings of the interviews are done by the means of discourse analysis. READ MORE

4. 8. Unaccompanied children - the effects of asylum process : A study on the effects of the waiting process of asylum seeking in Sweden for unaccompanied children

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Hallex Berry Nyame; [2015]
   Keywords : Unaccompanied children; statelessness; rightlessness; undocumented; totalitarianism; state sovereignty; national states; territorialism; discrimination; children’s rights; alienation;

   Abstract : This thesis provides a qualitative research of asylum seeking of unaccompanied children in Sweden. Children who find themselves traveling borders without company of a family member are in a very vulnerable position. READ MORE

5. 9. Reduction of Statelessness and Access to Nationality: The need for EU-regulation – The showcase of stateless Roma in Slovenia

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Matilda Månsson; [2013]
   Keywords : public international law; EU law; reduction of statelessness; access to nationality; naturalization requirements; Roma; Slovenian nationality law; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Rätten till medborgarskap kodifierad i artikel 15 i FN:s declaration om de mänskliga rättigheterna tolkas som rätten att ha rättigheter. Genom medborgarskap säkras tillgång till grundläggande mänskliga rättigheter. Personer som inte betraktas som medborgare i någon stat enligt dess lagar är de jure statslösa. READ MORE

6. 10. Access to an asylum process

   University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Hanna Flood; [2012]
   Keywords : Arendt; Dublin Regulation; Refugee; Common European Asylum System; Unaccompnied children;

   Abstract : This study examines the asylum process in Europe from the perspective of unaccompanied refugee children affected by the Dublin Regulation. The aim is to explore whether these children get access to a legally certain asylum process in the Common European Asylum System by comparing the experiences of the children with legal documents, directives and guidelines on how the procedure should be implemented. READ MORE