On the Right to Have Nationality Rights: Statelessness, Citizenship and Human Rights

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In this Netherlands International Law Review article, David Owen considers contemporary predicaments concerning nationality rights through Hannah Arendt’s phrase, ‘the right to have rights’. He addresses the rights to a nationality, not to be arbitrarily deprived of nationality, to change nationality and to naturalise, and argues for conceptions of citizenship and international order capable of realising a right to have nationality rights.