Addressing statelessness in Europe’s refugee response
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The research for this report was directed by the European Network on Statelessness (ENS) in
partnership with the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) and funded by the Open Society
Initiative for Europe. Country research was carried out by ENS Members: Thomas McGee (Individual
Associate Member) in Greece, Ivanka Kostic (Praxis) in Serbia, and Marlotte van Dael (ASKV) in the
Netherlands. Regional stakeholder interviews were conducted by Nina Murray (ENS). The findings
were analysed and written up by Nina Murray (ENS) and Zahra Albarazi (ISI), with editorial input from
Laura van Waas (ISI), Chris Nash (ENS) and Jan Brulc (ENS).
ENS is a civil society alliance of over 140 NGOs, academic initiatives, legal aid providers and individual
experts working to address statelessness in 41 European countries through law and policy
development, awareness raising, and capacity building. ENS has a strong track record of delivering
high impact research, advocacy, capacity-building and awareness-raising projects in thematic areas
such as childhood statelessness, preventing the arbitrary detention of stateless people, and
addressing the discrimination faced by minorities disproportionately affected by statelessness and
risk of statelessness, including Roma. For more information visit www.statelessness.eu
ISI is an independent non-profit research organisation with a mission to be an expert source of
impartial, trusted and interdisciplinary research, analysis, information and education on
statelessness and disenfranchisement around the world. The intersection between statelessness
and forced displacement is a thematic priority for the Institute’s research and engagement work, and
one it has previously collaborated on with the Norwegian Refugee Council for example to publish a
study on statelessness in the Syrian refugee context. For more information visit
http://new.institutesi.org
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