Table of Contents
Introduction*
Broadening the lens on citizenship revocation and the security of citizenship
Iseult Honohan............................................................................................................................ 1
Case studies
Citizenship revocation and statelessness of Kurds in Syria: Repression of Kurdish rights by Ba’athist
Assad regime in Syria (1962-2011)
Muhamad Alh ............................................................................................................................. 5
Interrogating citizenship in contemporary Nigeria
MaryAnne Iwara ....................................................................................................................... 12
Absent citizenship: A case study of the Rohingya
Jasmine Burnley ....................................................................................................................... 18
On the verge: Revocation and denial of citizenship in India
M. Mohsin Alam Bhat, Aashish Yadav .................................................................................... 25
Comments
Stolen citizenship
Laura van Waas ........................................................................................................................ 36
Pathways to statelessness: Denationalisation and the denial of personhood
Milena Tripkovic ...................................................................................................................... 41
Beyond the ‘West’: Understanding citizenship revocation in a global context
Émilien Fargues ........................................................................................................................ 44
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This work was supported by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme (grant agreement No 716350).