Working Group 4
Losing citizenship
Leaders: Dr David Edward Zammit and Dr Ibtisam Sadegh
WG4 examines the laws and bureaucratic processes relating to the loss or degradation of citizenship and/or legal identity, through changes in laws, administrative policies or practices, in a contemporary and/or diachronic historical context.
Focus Points
- What role do nation-states, and 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
- International law and human rights
- Withholding of ID/ revoking citizenship/ Statelessness
- Self-identity, psychological barriers to citizenship
- Denial, degradation or deprivation of legal status
Activities
- Collation of bibliography for publication on HIDDEN website.
- Using links to Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion.
- Regular WG meetings to coordinate, share research, plan further activities and host workshops.
- 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