Filling the Holes in the Rights Framework: Statelessness, Racial Discrimination, Genuine Connections and the Right to a (Specific) Nationality

Development summary

Bronwen Manby’s article in the International and Comparative Law Quarterly examines normative developments in international law on nationality since 2005.

It focuses on the avoidance of statelessness, due process in loss and deprivation of nationality, the interpretation of arbitrary denial and of the stateless-person definition, and protection against racial discrimination; it also discusses reinterpreting the ‘genuine connection’ requirement toward a right to claim a specific State’s nationality.