Contents
Preface
Introduction
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Exploring Statelessness
（1）Boundaries between de jure and de facto
（2）Mechanisms of Statelessness
（3）Consequences of Statelessness: An Interface of Nationality and Immigration Laws
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International Legal Development：Creation of Two “Orphan” Conventions
（1）International Regulation of Nationality Laws and Statelessness
（2）The 1954 Stateless Persons Convention: Who Determines Statelessness?
（3）The 1961 Statelessness Convention and the UNHCR as an International Agency
for Stateless Persons
（4） Statelessness in International Human Rights Discourse
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The Issue of Statelessness in Japan
（1） Prevention of Statelessness
Children Born out of Wedlock
Children Whose Parents Are Unknown
Children Whose Parents Are Both Stateless: Children Born in Japan to
Palestinian Parents
Naturalization
Un/Determination of Statelessness and Un/Registration of Birth
（2）Status of Stateless Persons and Related Groups of Concern
Listening to Voices of Stateless Persons
Nowhere to Go: Stateless Persons in Orbit
What Happens to Unregistered Children?
Convention Refugees, Indochinese Refugees and Asylum-Seekers
War-Separated Japanese Nationals Left out in China and the Philippines
Defectors from DPRK
Resident Koreans
Resident Taiwanese
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