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Childhood Statelessness Prevention in the Migratory Context: The Experience of Syrian Asylum Seekers in Belgium By Justine Raymond Statelessness Working Paper Series No. 2017/04

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Childhood Statelessness Prevention in the Migratory Context: The Experience of Syrian Asylum Seekers in Belgium

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Author: J. Raymond

Journal / Publisher: Statelessness Working Paper Series

Document number: 2017/04

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Description: This paper seeks to identify how Belgian laws and their implementation can effectively prevent statelessness among children of asylum seekers from Syria who are born in Belgium. In 2014, UNHCR started a campaign to end statelessness worldwide by 2024. At the same time, important migratory inflows have been experienced in Europe as a result of the ongoing conflict in Syria, among others. In light of those events, this research aims at identifying how Belgian laws and their implementation effectively prevent statelessness among children of asylum seekers from Syria who are born in Belgium. It identifies stateless persons and those at risk of statelessness in the Syrian context. This paper then assesses how Belgian legislation on statelessness prevention at birth is applied to children of asylum seekers, depending on the parents’ legal status, as registered asylum seekers, recognized refugees, beneficiaries of subsidiary protection, recognised stateless persons, or irregular migrants. Moreover, it further identifies practical obstacles to acquisition of Syrian or Belgian nationality and monitors municipalities’ implementation of the legislation on statelessness prevention at birth. This paper concludes that despite strong existing safeguards against statelessness at birth in the Belgian legislation, in practice the proper application of those safeguards is impaired by administrative obstacles or the lack of expertise of civil servants who apply the law, which still leaves some asylum seekers' children born in Belgium at risk of statelessness.

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Academic publication

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Academia : Individual Scholarship
NGO : ISI

Region

Europe

Country

Belgium

Theme

(Forced) Migration
Children

Population/Community

Kurds
Palestinians

Date published: Jun 1, 2017

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