NUTR 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: De Jure, De Facto, Statelessness
8 Aug 2018
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It is a person who is not considered as a national by any state. Everyone has the right to a nationality/ no one shall be arbitrarily depirved of his nationality, nor denied the right to change his nationality. At least 10 million people are without a nationality. Many of them face fundamental deprivation of rights (economic, social, and political) Reality of human rights is that they determine one"s belonging to a nation. One"s legal belonging = the right to have rights. Statelessness = deprivation of the right to have rights. Imperative dilemma between human rights (inclusive notion of rights) and state sovereignty (exclusive) Many stateless children: palestinian and rohingya children. De jure statelessness : the absence of any nationality. De facto statelessness: people who have a nationality but whose status where they reside is not. De facto stateless children are undocumented children who are nationals of a country legal (ex. undocumented migrants, refugees) other than their residing country.
