2021 Statelessness & Citizenship Review 3(1) nationality as an individual right’. 19 In his view, this has ‘undermined the spirit of the Banjul Charter, which consecrates peoples’ rights as an African specificity’. 20 This article reflects on the nature of the Banjul-led African human rights system, particularly with regard to collective community and peoples’ rights, and reflects on what this means for the right to nationality. He concludes with the provocative perspective that: statelessness has gone beyond its limited legalistic perspectives of ‘stateless persons’ to embrace the broader socio-political perspectives of ‘stateless people’ and ‘stateless nations’, where the right to nationality could best be enjoyed collectively as a people and community. 21 This lays fertile ground for further debate and exploration of these foundational issues. Paola Pelletier Quiñones’ article, ‘Breaking the Presumption that the Applicant for Statelessness Determination is Foreign’ offers an original and important contribution on a vital issue for the protection of stateless persons, namely the scope and ambit of SDPs. As she notes ‘there is no international jurisprudence ordering and recognising the obligation of states to adopt SDPs or modify an SDP norm according to international standards’, and while there is emerging high quality scholarship, this has largely focused on Europe. 22 Her contribution considers all 23 existing SDPs specifically inquiring into whether ‘a formally adopted SDP [could] be used by states to perpetuate a policy of exclusion or denationalisation.’ 23 As she observes, these issues have not been thoroughly considered to date. Her detailed empirical analysis reveals that of the 23 states that have enacted SDPs, ‘eight countries have included safeguards in their SDP norms for identification, investigation and referral mechanisms where the applicant could be identified as a national of the state in which they have applied to be recognised as stateless’. 24 These safeguards in the SDP normative framework ‘constitute good practice and guidance that must be considered by current and future SDP norms and their corresponding rules of application’. 25 This issue of the Review also includes three engaging case notes on significant jurisprudential developments edited by our ever-capable Case Note Editor, Dr Katia Bianchini, and two insightful book reviews on significant new additions to scholarship, commissioned by our excellent Book Review Editor, Dr Barbara von Rütte. Finally, we are thrilled also to publish an important symposium on ‘Citizenship and Statelessness in India’. The contributions to this forthcoming symposium emerged from a collaboration between Melbourne Law School (Asian Law Centre and Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness), Oxford’s Bonavero Institute of 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 3. Darren Ekema Ewumbue Monono, ‘Peoples’ Right to a Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness in Africa’ (2021) 3(1) Statelessness & Citizenship Review 33. ibid. ibid 58. See Katia Bianchini, Protecting Stateless Persons (Martinus Nijhoff, 2018). See also Katia Bianchini, ‘A Comparative Analysis of Statelessness Determination Procedures in 10 EU States’ (2017) 29(1) International Journal of Refugee Law 42; Paola Pelletier Quiñones, ‘Breaking the Presumption That Applicants of Statelessness Determination Procedure Are Foreign’ (2021) 3(1) Statelessness & Citizenship Review 61. Pelletier Quiñones (n 22) 62. ibid. ibid 62–6 4