26 | Training handbook . Statelessness 1. Introduction 2. Guidance 3. Legal context (...) • State succession: The process through which a new state is created or an existing state undergoes significant changes in its territory or governance, which may lead to statelessness if nationality laws are not adequately addressed. 4. Research strategy 5. Appendices Keyword combinations/strings: Stateless persons' rights, Statelessness and human rights, Stateless children, De facto statelessness and documentation, Legal protection for stateless persons, Stateless refugees, Birthright citizenship and statelessness, State succession and statelessness, Stateless determination procedures, Nationality laws and statelessness, Statelessness reduction measures, Discrimination and statelessness Including search terms or 'buzz words' that are not directly statelessness-specific can help researchers to uncover information on broader contexts or related issues that might be connected to statelessness. Here are some examples of such terms: • Undocumented nationals:36 People who are nationals of a country in principle but lack the identity documents to prove it. • Displaced person: An individual who has been forced to leave their home or place of habitual residence due to armed conflict, persecution, or natural disasters but has not crossed an international border. • Refugee: A person who has fled their country of origin due to a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in Marginalised communities, Displaced persons, Forced a particular social group, or political opinion and is migration, Irregular migrants, Stateless-like situations, Human trafficking, Social exclusion, Legal identity, unable or unwilling to return. Access to citizenship, Birth registration Asylum seeker: An individual who has left their country of origin and seeks international protection Nationality law reform, Stateless minorities, State in another country but has not yet been granted succession, Internally displaced persons (IDPs), Arbitrary refugee status. detention, Refugees and asylum seekers, Gender Stateless determination procedure (SDP): A legal discrimination in nationality laws, Right to nationality, process through which a person's statelessness is Stateless populations in conflict zones, Durable assessed and recognised, potentially granting them solutions for stateless persons. legal status and protection. • • When researching statelessness, using specific keywords, either individually or in combination, can help to find relevant information and resources. Non-exhaustive examples of English words to convey different understandings of “stateless” could include: Individual keywords: 1954 Convention, 1961 Convention, Stateless*, De jure statelessness, De facto statelessness, Undocumented, Nationality-less. Legal limbo, Disenfranchised, Birthright citizenship, Naturalisation, Denaturalisation, Stateless determination 36. Hunter, W. (2019). Undocumented Nationals: Between Statelessness and Citizenship (Elements in the Politics of Development). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press © Asylos, 2023 Back to contents