Oxford LibGuides: People on the move: legal &amp; HR responses: Nationality, and citizenship

Nationality, citizenship and statelessness

Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009
Open access from legislation.gov.uk
Types of British Nationality
Overview on official government website
British Citizenship
How to apply on official government website
Deprivation of British citizenship and withdrawal of passports
Open access. House of Commons Library Research Briefing Published Wednesday, 18 December, 2024

The Invention of the Passport: surveillance, citizenship and the state by John C. Torpey
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 9781108473903
Publication Date: 2nd edn, 2018
Print copy is at General 510 T686.5a
The Changing Role of Nationality in International Law by Serena Forlati (Editor); Pietro Franzina (Editor); Alessandra Annoni (Editor)
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this book online via title link
ISBN: 041553545X
Publication Date: 2013
Print copy is at Internat 565 A615.6a
The Right to Have Rights: citizenship, humanity, and international law by Alison Kesby
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this book online via title link
ISBN: 0199600821
Publication Date: 2012
Print copy is at Internat 570 K42.5a
The Right to Legal Personhood of Marginalised Groups by Anna Arstein-Kerslake
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 9780192843944
Publication Date: 2024
Ch is 5 Legal Personhood, Migrant Groups, and Stateless Peoples
The Law and Practice of Expulsion and Exclusion from the United Kingdom by Eric Fripp (Editor); Rowena Moffatt (Editor); Ellis Wilford (Editor); Hope of Craighead (Foreword by)
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this book online via title link
ISBN: 1849465894
Publication Date: 2015
Print copy is at KM177.5.FRI 2015

Open access material available to all

Britishness, Belonging and Citizenship: experiencing nationality law by Devyani Prabhat
Call Number: Open Access book available free to anyone with internet connection
ISBN: 9781447344483
Publication Date: 2018
Print copy can be requested from CSF if preferred
Migration and Islamic Ethics: issues of residence, naturalization and citizenship by Ray Jureidini (Volume Editor); Said Fares Hassan (Volume Editor)
Call Number: Open access title available to download via title link
ISBN: 9004406409
Publication Date: 2019-11-21

Declaration on the Human Rights of Individuals Who are not Nationals of the Country in which They Live
Official website. UN Doc. A/40/53
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This Declaration guarantees to non-nationals ("aliens") a number of fundamental rights, such as life and security, privacy, fair treatment before tribunals, freedom of conscience and religion, peaceful assembly, and others. It proscribes torture and cruel punishment of non-nationals. It also expressly precludes the legitimization of the illegal entry of aliens into a State, and requires their observance of the laws of the State in which they are present.
Expulsion of aliens (Work of the International Law Commission)
Open access
EurWork: Third-country nationals
Free resource. Definition, explanation & linked introduction by European Observatory of Working Life

Within member states of the EU) the phrase "third country nationals" (TCN) is used to refer to non-EU nationals while in a EU member state.

Terms to use for subject searches in SOLO:

Political refugees -- Civil rights

Immigrants -- Civil rights

Refugees -- Civil rights

Aliens -- Civil rights

The Law and Practice of Expulsion and Exclusion from the United Kingdom by Eric Fripp (Editor); Rowena Moffatt (Editor); Ellis Wilford (Editor); Hope of Craighead (Foreword by)
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this book online via title link
ISBN: 1849465894
Publication Date: 2015
Print copy is at KM177.5.FRI 2015
The Human Rights of Non-Citizens by David S. Weissbrodt
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this book online via title link
ISBN: 0199547823
Publication Date: 2008
Chapter 4 is specifically about state-less people.
Print copy is at Internat 570 W432.8a
The Right of an Alien to Be Protected Against Arbitrary Expulsion in International Law by Julia Wojnowska-Radzinska
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 9789004265448
Publication Date: 2015

Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law (MPEIL)
Remote access requires Oxford SSO. "Nationality and Statelessness" is an entry within the OBO for International law But it would be worth using subject search as well.
Alternative names: Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) ; Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (MPEiPro)

The Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law combines the fully updated online edition of the Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) (originally published in print between 1991 and 2001) with the Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (MPEiPro) which has been published (online only) since September 2019. The peer-reviewed articles in both works are updated and added to monthly.

Specific subject searches to try in SOLO:

Stateless persons Legal status, laws, etc.

Citizenship, Loss of

But also try the broader classifications:

Stateless persons
Statelessness

Statelessness: the enigma of an international community by William E. Conklin
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this book online via title link
ISBN: 184946507X
Publication Date: 2014
Print copy is at Internat 565 C752.5a
International Refugee Law and the Protection of Stateless Persons by Michelle Foster; Hélène Lambert; Hélène Lambert
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 9780198796015
Publication Date: 2019
Print copy is at Internat 570 F756b

Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons
Official website. Cite as 360 UNTS 117EIF: 6 June 1960
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness
Official website Cite as 989 UNTS 175 EIF: 13 December 1975
UNHCR: UN conventions on statelessness
Portal to related information
International Observatory on Statelessness
Free resource. The IOS was created in March 2007 ... "to: collate national data on patterns, types and conditions of statelessness to further knowledge;
promote research on patterns and causes of statelessness by means of gathering data on the state of nationality and citizenship legislation, systems of protection, and factors that contribute to the problem of statelessness;
act as a clearinghouse for NGOs, academics, advocacy groups and policy-makers working on issues of statelessness."
Stateless Person
Official website of UK Border Agency.This page explains how to apply for leave to remain if you are a stateless person. A stateless person is someone who is not considered a national by any country under the operation of its laws
Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion
"The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion is an independent non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting an integrated, human rights based response to the injustice of statelessness and exclusion. .. website also hosts the Online Forum on Statelessness, ... for outreach, networking and exchange of information that we hope will contribute to the development and strengthening of inter-disciplinary engagement, networks and partnerships on statelessness."
Successor to Statelessness Program, Tilburg Law School, 2011-2015.

Further help with specific topics

Asylum and refugee law
Another page in this gude
Children: migrants, intercountry adoption, abduction, trafficking
Another page in this guide
Crimmigration - Immigration Detention/Control
Another page in this gude
Disappeared: enforced or involuntary
A page in the Law Bod's international criminal law online guide
Forced migration, displaced people
A page in this guide
Health rights and tourism
Another page in this gude
Human trafficking, modern slavery
A page in this guide
Irregular migration & people smuggling
A page in this guide
International migration law (IML)
Another page in this gude
Migrant workers
A page in the Law Library's Labour and Employment online guide
Nationality, citizenship, non-citizens, statelessness
Another page in this gude
Nomadic peoples and intinerant cultures
Another page in this gude