“ I welcome the publication of Securing Citizenship: India’s legal obligations towards precarious citizens and stateless persons. This report raises an urgent call on India to affirm the nationality of the stateless and those at risk of statelessness, who deserve to fully and equally enjoy human rights deriving from nationality. As UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, I am pleased to support the report’s recommendations as important contributions to addressing intersectional and structural discrimination against the most vulnerable people in India, including children.” — E. TENDAYI ACHIUME, UN Special Rappor teur on Contemporar y Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance “Securing Citizenship comprehensively distils the international and national law on citizenship and statelessness, including the right against discrimination. It captures the marginalisation of stateless persons as a minority group and suggests ways to remedy it. This report highlights how law limits power, and why it must arbitrate when power is misused by the dominant. A thoughtful and accurate portrayal for those interested in what is currently at stake in India. I hope the recommendations will prove effective to address the concerns of arbitrary deprivation of nationality of minorities in Assam.” — J OSHUA CASTELLINO, Executive Director, Minority Rights Group International & Professor of Law, Middlesex University SECURING CITIZENSHIP