1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons

Nikita Thompson A new asylum paradigm? Globalization, migration and the uncertain future of the international refugee regime Jeff Crisp In our world, we can find more than 10 million people who, when asked where home is, can only respond that they are stateless. This large cluster of stateless people live and reside in lands where they do not have legal membership, given by the state to them. Due to this lack of membership within a state that an individual is occupying, they lose the legal rights they would have if they were members of that said state.Some of these rights include protection, protection from prosecution, and all together a sense of support. More importantly this article focuses on the lack of judicial policies and laws in relation…

persist in our world. Today, more than 10 million people worldwide are affected by this issue.A stateless person is one who does not posses a link between the state and themselves. They do not posses and citizenship, declining them the right to participate in the political processes. All around the world today, there are many people who are not considered nationals of a state due to various reasons, including discrimination against a group of people, and mass migrations during a time of chaos…