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Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Melbourne Law School

Melbourne Law School’s Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness was established in 2018 with the objective of undertaking research, teaching and engagement activities aimed at reducing statelessness and protecting the rights of stateless people in Australia, the Asia Pacific region, and as appropriate more broadly.
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• February 05, 2024 Nationality and the Right to Enter: Assessing the Impact of Refusal of Entry for the Purpose of Statelessness Determination
  By: Cecilia Manzotti
• February 05, 2024 Reconfiguration of Citizenship Beyond State Boundaries in Rojava
  By: Atefeh Ramsari
• February 05, 2024 'I Don't Know What Tomorrow will Bring': Understanding COVID-19’s Impact on the United States’ Stateless Population
  By: Ashley Walters, Taryn Painter, Heidi Meyers
• February 05, 2024 Getting Statelessness Published: Pathways to Publication for Early Career Researchers in the Field of Statelessness Studies
  By: Barbara von Rütte
• February 05, 2024 Habbal et al v Argentina: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Test on Arbitrary Deprivation of Nationality
  By: Maria Jose Recalde-Vela
• February 05, 2024 Statelessness Before the ICJ: The Gambia v Myanmar
  By: Jade Roberts
• December 22, 2023 Getting Statelessness Published: Pathways to Publication for Early Career Researchers in the Field of Statelessness Studies
  By: Barbara von Rütte
• August 10, 2023 Responding to Netflix's Stateless Series: Misrecognition and Missed Opportunities
  By: Lindsey N. Kingston
• August 10, 2023 The Racialised Non-Being of Non-Citizens: Slaves, Migrants and the Stateless
  By: Samuel Martinez
• December 16, 2022 Protecting Australian Protected Persons
  By: Savitri Taylor, Jodie Boyd
• December 16, 2022 A Typology of Statelessness
  By: Benedikt Buechel
• December 16, 2022 The Law is Not Enough: Realising the Child’s Right to a Nationality in South Africa
  By: Liesl Heila Muller
• July 20, 2022 A Teleological and Child-Sensitive Interpretation of a Country of Former Habitual Residence for Stateless Children Born Outside Their Parents’ Country of Nationality or Former Habitual Residence
  By: Sharelle Anne Aitchison
• July 20, 2022 Children at Risk of Statelessness in the Fight against Terrorism
  By: Lavina Spieb, Louise Pyne-Jones
• July 20, 2022 Protecting Minorities from De Facto Statelessness: Birthright Citizenship in the United States
  By: Michael Sullivan
• July 20, 2022 Beyond Statelessness: 'Unchilding' and the Health of Palestinian Children in Jerusalem
  By: Osama Tanous, Bram Wispelwey, Rania Muhareb
• July 20, 2022 Customary International Law Requiring States to Grant Nationality to Stateless Children Born in Their Territory
  By: William Thomas Worster
• July 20, 2022 Undocumented Children in Iran
  By: Zahra Abtahi, Keyvan Zamani, Miriam Potocky
• July 20, 2022 Comment on the Zhao Case: Can a ‘Victory for Human Rights’ in the Netherlands Benefit Children at Risk of Statelessness in the Middle East and North Africa?
  By: Thomas McGee, Yoana Kuzmova
• July 20, 2022 Statelessness and Young Children
  By: Aisha K Yousafzai, Joan Lombardi, Erum Mariam, Tina Hyder, Zarlasht Halaimzai
• July 20, 2022 Views Adopted by the UN Human Rights Committee Under Article 5(4) of the Optional Protocol, concerning Communication No 2918/2016
  By: Rodolfo Ribeiro Coutinho Marques
• July 20, 2022 R (Begum) v Special Immigration Appeals Commission; R (Begum) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; Begum v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] UKSC 7, [2021] AC 765
  By: Eric Fripp
• July 20, 2022 The South African Constitutional Court Decides Against Statelessness and in Favour of Children
  By: Mihloti Basil Sherinda, Jonathan Klaaren
• December 21, 2021 'Humanising' Statelessness through an Artistic Approach
  By: Md Mizanur Rahman
• December 16, 2021 Refusing Refusal The Struggles of Stateless Palestinians in the Swedish Migration Regime
  By: Helena Lindholm
• December 16, 2021 Sea Level Rise and Climate Statelessness: From 'Too Little, Too Late' to Context-Based Relevance
  By: Michel Rouleau-Dick
• December 16, 2021 Tanah Tumpahnya Darahku: The ‘Genuine and Effective Link’ in Establishing Malaysian Citizenship
  By: Tan Kian Leong
• December 16, 2021 'I Must Be from Somewhere. I'm Not from the Moon'
  By: Jason Tucker, Haqqi Bahram
• December 16, 2021 Legal Identity and Minority: Statelessness in Cambodia Recent Developments
  By: Christoph Sperfeldt
• July 28, 2021 Colonial Legacies in Syrian Nationality Law and the Risk of Statelessness
  By: Malak Benslama-Dabdoub
• July 28, 2021 People's Right to a Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness in Africa
  By: Darren Ekema Equmbue Monono
• July 28, 2021 Breaking the Presumption That Applicants of Statelessness Determination Procedures Are Foreign
  By: Paola Pelletier Quinones
• July 28, 2021 TP v Minister of Home Affairs (Sentence No 9140, 22 April 2014) (Tribunal of Rome)
  By: Paolo Farci
• July 28, 2021 Towards a Stateless Standpoint Epistemology
  By: Haqqi Bahram
• July 28, 2021 Statelessness and COVID-19
  By: Jamie Liew
• July 28, 2021 COVID-19 and the Bidoon in Kuwait
  By: Areej Alshammiry
• July 28, 2021 Reaching Stateless, Undocumented and Migrant Communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic
  By: Mary Anne K. Baltazar, Amanda R. Cheong
• July 28, 2021 COVID-19 in Cox's Bazar Pandemic Narratives from the World's Largest Refugee Camp
  By: Yuriko Cowper-Smith
• July 28, 2021 Surviving Overlapping Precarity in a 'Gigantic Hellhole' A Case Study of Venezuelan LGBTQI+ Asylum Seekers and Undocument Migrant in Brazil amid COVID-19
  By: Yvonne Su, Tyler Valiquette, Yuriko Cowper-Smith
• December 21, 2020 Fighting Imagined Invasions with Administrative Violence. Racism, Xenophobia and Nativism as a Cause of Statelessness in Myanmar, the Dominican Republic and Assam (India)
  By: Jose-Maria Arraiza, Phyu Zin Aye, Marina Arraiza Shakirova
• December 21, 2020 Addressing Statelessness through the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (‘ICERD’)
  By: Michiel Hoornick
• December 21, 2020 ‘Legal Identity for All’ and Statelessness Opportunity and Threat at the Junction of Public and Private International Law
  By: Bronwen Manby
• December 21, 2020 The Broadening Protection Gap for Stateless Palestinian Refugees in Belgium
  By: Wout Van Doren, Julie Lejeune, Marjan Claes, Valerie Klein
• December 21, 2020 Nomads and the Struggle for a Legal Identity
  By: Heather Alexander
• December 21, 2020 Rohingyas and the (Il)Legal Quest for an Indian Identity
  By: Tejal Khana
• December 21, 2020 Digital ID and Risk of Statelessness
  By: Grace Mutung'u, Isaac Rutenberg
• June 29, 2020 Mapping Minorities’ Vulnerability to Hate Speech and Denationalisation with a Focus on East and Southeast Asia
  By: Katalin Berenyi
• June 29, 2020 Statelessness in the European Union Exploring the Potential Value of Union Citizenshi
  By: Anne Brekoo
• June 29, 2020 Feminist Foresight in Statelessness Century-Old Citizenship Equality Campaigns
  By: Deirdre Brennan
• June 29, 2020 ‘Rainbow Statelessness’ — Between Sexual Citizenship and Legal Theory Exploring the Statelessness–LGBTIQ+ Nexus
  By: Thomas McGee
• June 29, 2020 Statelessness Determination Procedures Towards a Bespoke Procedure for Nigeria
  By: Solomon Oseghale Momoh, Hanneke Van Eijken, Cedric Ryngaert
• June 29, 2020 Identifying the ‘Outsider’ An Assessment of Foreigner Tribunals in the Indian State of Assam
  By: Talha Abdul Rahman
• June 29, 2020 Symposium Introduction Identifying a Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue between Statelessness and Slavery
  By: Alice Eckstein
• June 29, 2020 Lessons Learned from Modern Slavery Addressing Shared Challenges in Measurement for Statelessness Researchers
  By: Davina P. Durgana
• June 29, 2020 A ‘Place’ for Stateless People? Connecting Place-Based Research with Statelessness
  By: Alison Gardner, Phil Northall
• June 29, 2020 Critical Allies On Contemporary Enslavement and Statelessness
  By: Jane Anna Gordon
• June 29, 2020 Tracking the Implementation Gap Empirically Assessing the Translation of International Antislavery Commitments in Domestic Legislation Globally
  By: Katarina Schwarz, Jean Allain
• December 18, 2019 The Right to a Nationality and the Right to Adequate Housing An Analysis of the Intersection of Two Largely ‘Invisible’ Human Rights Violations
  By: Benjamin Gronowski
• December 18, 2019 ‘People without a State Also Must Live’ Kurds’ Experiences of Citizenship in the Middle East and the Netherlands
  By: Nannie Skold
• December 18, 2019 Assessment of the #IBelong Campaign Mid-Point and the High-Level Segment on Statelessness
  By: Carol Batchelor
• December 18, 2019 Resisting Erasure The Politics of Reckoning with Statelessness in the Arts
  By: Nicoletta Enria
• December 17, 2019 The Conditions of 'Savages'? Statelessness, Politics, and Race in Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism
  By: Michiel Bot
• December 17, 2019 'Diagnosing' Statelessness and Everyday State Illegibility in Northern Thailand
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• December 12, 2019 Citizenship Deprivation under the European Convention-System
  By: Louise Reyntjens
• June 20, 2019 Better Must Come: Citizenship and Belonging after Statelessness
  By: Patrick Balazo
• June 19, 2019 Rising Statelessness Due to Disappearing Island States
  By: Marija Dobric