The release of more than 140 ex-detainees from immigration detention has prompted a panicked government response. So, what does the legislation say, and what happens now?
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on statelessness
Displaying all articles
The overturning of almost 20 years of legal precedent allowing indefinite detention is a watershed moment. But stateless people in Australia have few rights and little say over their futures.
When it comes to civil registrations, some states are using exclusionary mechanisms to block anyone it considers undesirable, as happened to Dominicans of Haitian descent.
New research explores the little-understood problem facing many LGBTIQ+ people — the loss of citizenship due to discriminatory laws and difficulties claiming asylum.
Australia is proposing some of the toughest citizenship stripping laws in the world as it steps up efforts to curb extremist attacks - but the proposed law could run into significant legal hurdles
Last month’s epic cave rescue has drawn attention to the issue of statelessness in Thailand - a crisis the country is trying to resolve urgently, especially for stateless children.
There are at least 400,000 stateless people living in Thailand – many of them young, like Adul. Here’s what their lives are like.
For many years, statelessness in Madagascar was spurred by racial and gender discrimination.
Top contributors
-
Senior Research Associate, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Law School, UNSW Sydney
-
Research Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, School of Advanced Study, University of London
-
Postdoctoral Researcher, Trinity College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin
-
Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the South African Research Chair in International Law (SARCIL), University of Johannesburg
-
Teaching Fellow, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
-
PhD researcher, Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
-
Director - Stateless Legal Clinic, The University of Melbourne
-
Senior Lecturer in Politics and Policy Studies, Deakin University
-
Research Fellow, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney
