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Meanings of Statelessness

Women knitting and sewing.

Human Rights and Statelessness

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Statelessness, Nationality, and the United Nations

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Statelessness and the Question of Camps

Street with cars and trucks.

The Status of Bengalis in Assam: From Migrant to Refugee to Stateless

Bedouin children sitting outside around an adult.

Beyond the State: Refuge & Refugees in Middle Eastern History

Tents in front of buildings.

Problems of Statelessness, Solutions of Citizenship? A Historical View from the Middle East

Women standing behind counter in a restaurant or store.

State(less) and Settler

Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, 1967

UN Convention on Statelessness, 1954, and UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, 1961

Group of officials signing a the 1951 UN Refugee Convention

UN Refugee Convention, 1951

Aerial photograph of Bedouin tents on the Iraq-Najd frontier (1926). Source: GB165-0118 Glubb Collection, MEC Archive, St Antony’s College, Oxford. Reproduced with permission.

The Bedouin, the State, and Statelessness: Mobility, Identity and Resilience

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Stateless versus Refugee

People in fish market.

Stateless Nationals: The Case of Palestine

Men standing in front of a truck.

Are Refugees and Stateless People the Same?