Chapter 2. Europe and Statelessness massive and comparable to magnitude of causes related to state succession.463 An example that could be seen above and that is often mentioned in this relation is the deprivation of nationality of Jews by Nazi-Germany, also in occupied states.464 However, there are also more contemporary instances where discriminated minorities are deprived of citizenship or never receive it, such as the Rohingya in Myanmar.465 In Europe, the situation of the Roma minority – the largest minority group in Europe – is considered discriminatory and leading to statelessness, and is often also related to lack of or problems with documentation and civil registration.466 Also, we see gender discrimination in nationality laws around the world, which can result in statelessness467, as well as discrimination against people with a disability. This problem perhaps is more 463 464 465 466 467 2013/01) 11 <http://cadmus.eui.eu//handle/1814/30201> accessed 22 August 2021. Cf ISI, The World’s Stateless (Wolf Legal Publishers 2014) 25. Cf Paul Weis, Nationality and Statelessness in International Law (2nd ed, Sijthoff & Noordhoff International Publishers 1979) 119–126; David Weissbrodt, The Human Rights of Non-Citizens (Oxford University Press 2008) 127. Eg David Weissbrodt, The Human Rights of Non-Citizens (Oxford University Press 2008) 98–99; ERT, ‘Unravelling Anomaly. Detention, Discrimination and the Protection Needs of Stateless Persons’ (July 2010) <www.equalrightstrust.org/ertdocumentbank/UNRAVELLING%20ANOMALY%20 small%20fi le.pdf> accessed 26 September 2021; ERT, ‘Burning Homes, Sinking Lives. A Situation Report on Violence Against Stateless Rohingya in Myanmar and their Refoulement from Bangladesh’ (June 2012) <www.equalrightstrust.org/ertdocumentbank/The%20Equal%20Rights%20Trust%20 -%20Burning %20Homes%20Sinking%20Lives.pdf> accessed 26 September 2021; ERT & Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University, ‘The Human Rights of Stateless Rohingya in Thailand’ (February 2014) <www.equalrightstrust.org/ertdocumentbank/The%20Human%20 Rights%20of%20Stateless%20Rohingya%20in%20Thailand(small).pdf> accessed 26 September 2021. The Rohingya are also mentioned explicitly in ISI, The World’s Stateless (Wolf Legal Publishers 2014) 25 and Olivier Vonk, Maarten Vink and Gerard-René de Groot, Protection Against Statelessness: Trends and Regulations in Europe’ (GLOBALCIT, EUDO Citizenship Observatory, Country Reports, 2013/01) 11 <http://cadmus.eui.eu//handle/1814/30201> accessed 22 August 2021. ERRC, ‘Roma Belong – Discrimination, Statelessness and Marginalisation of Roma in the Western Balkans and Ukraine’ (errc.org, 26 October 2017) <www.errc.org/uploads/upload_en/fi le/romabelong.pdf> accessed 22 August 2021; Annemarie Busser & Peter Rodrigues, ‘Staatloze Roma in Nederland’ [Stateless Roma in the Netherlands] (2010) 8 Asiel & Migrantenrecht 384; Jessica Parra, ‘Stateless Roma in the European Union: Reconciling the Doctrine of Sovereignty concerning Nationality Laws with International Agreements to Reduce and Avoid Statelessness’ (2011) 34 Fordham International Law Journal 1666; Ivanka Kostic, ‘Discrimination and Statelessness – the Roma in the Western Balkans’ (Statelessness.eu, ENS Kick-Off Seminar 19–21 November 2012) <www.statelessness.eu/sites/www.statelessness.eu/fi les/attachments/resources/ENS%20kick-off %20 seminar%202012%20-%20Discrimination%20and%20statelessness,%20the%20Roma%20in%20 the%20Western%20Balkans.pdf> accessed 26 September 2021; Julija Sardelic, ‘Romani Minorities on the Margins of Post-Yugoslav Citizenship Regimes’ (2013) Citsee Working Paper 2013/31 <http:// papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2388859> accessed 26 September 2021; Ivan Kochovski, ‘Statelessness and Discriminatory Nationality Laws: The Case of the Roma in Bosnia and Serbia’ (LLM thesis, Tilburg University 2013); Joanne van Selm, ‘Stateless Roma in Macedonia’ (2014) 32 Forced Migration Review 46. See also ISI, The World’s Stateless (Wolf Legal Publishers 2014) 27. Eg Laura van Waas & Zahra Albarazi, ‘Towards the Abolition of Gender Discrimination in Nationality Laws’ (2014) 46 Forced Migration Review 49; Women’s Refugee Commission & Tilburg University, ‘Our Motherland, Our Country. Gender Discrimination and Statelessness in the Middle East and North Africa (June 2013) <www.refworld.org/docid/51c02a084.html> accessed 26 September 2021. Intersentia 85