WG4 Losing citizenship

WG4 will examine the laws around the loss of citizenship and legal identity, either through changes in laws, as a way of controlling citizens’ movements, through hereditary lines or through conflict.

Focus Points

• What role does the EU have?Transnational citizenship, barriers, facilitators
• Citizenship tests
• Hereditary laws for accessing citizenship – legacies of colonial histories and different gender impacts
• Children’s access to Citizenship
• Citizenship stripping
• Iternational law and human rights
• Withholding of ID/ revoking citizenship/ Statelessness
• Self-identity, psychological barriers to citizenship

Activities

• Collation of bibliography for publication on HIDDEN website.
• Using links to Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion.
• Regular WG meetings to coordinate, share research findings and plan further activities and workshop hosted at same time
• Participation in Action conferences
• STSM
• Preparation of future funding bid

Deliverables

• Contributing to online bibliography
• Report for website on the workshop with policy makers which will be a basis for
  developing a set of recommendations for policy makers dealing with IDs for
  migrant and non-migrant populations
• Reports on regular WG meetings
• Report on Annual workshop on theme or method of the group on website
• Publication of 2 scientific articles
• STSM reports
• Contribution to joint funding application