Editorial between stateless persons and those living in conditions of slavery’. 9 Yet scholarship and advocacy on these issues has tended to develop independently. Thus, she asks, what knowledge and practices can be shared among scholars working on these two separate violations of human rights? Where and how can researchers identify similar challenges and resources, as well as collaborate on a common research agenda? 10 This symposium — the first of many to come on a range of issues that intersect with statelessness — brings together researchers and scholars working on slavery ‘to offer their perspectives on challenges and paths forward that may resonate with those engaged in understanding statelessness’. 11 We see this and future symposia as crucial to meet the ambition of SCR to offer not only a dedicated space for scholarship on statelessness and citizenship, but also as a meeting place for mutually beneficial knowledge exchange between fields. The four other journal articles in this issue examine particular issues in statelessness research or specific sites of statelessness or risks of statelessness. Katalin Berenyi’s article examines an issue that has been largely overlooked in statelessness research to date, namely, the incidence and relevance of hate speech in deepening animosity towards stateless populations and potential accountability mechanisms in relation to this issue. The importance of country and region-specific analysis is exemplified in the articles by Solomon Oseghale Momoh, Henneke van Eijken and Cedric Ryngaert (Nigeria), Talha Abdul Rahman (Assam, India) and Anne Brekoo (European Union). Momoh, van Eijken and Ryngaert make an important contribution to the elucidation of international norms and best practices regarding the establishment and operation of a statelessness determination procedure (‘SDP’). Importantly they situate their analysis in Nigeria, relevant both because there are no current SDPs in Africa and because Nigeria has ‘a sizable number of persons … at risk of statelessness’. 12 In Rahman’s piece, one of the most serious global challenges to inclusion is examined, namely the citizenship crisis unfolding in India. Focusing specifically on the legitimacy of the Foreigner Tribunals established as part of the National Register of Citizens process in the State of Assam, India, Rahman undertakes an original analysis of the extent to which the tribunals uphold fundamental principles of the rule of law. Situated against the background of a sophisticated historical and jurisprudential framework, this original paper makes a significant contribution to scholarship especially given the dearth of scholarly work to date on this topic. Brekoo’s article turns our gaze towards a different region, namely the European Union, in which she notes that nearly half a million people are stateless within Member States. However, she observes that the EU has demonstrated that ‘it is capable of devising a framework of rights that transcends the national boundaries: 9 10 11 12 Alice Eckstein, ‘Identifying a Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue between Statelessness and Slavery’ (2020) 2(1) Statelessness & Citizenship Review 138. ibid. ibid. Solomon Oseghale Momoh, Hanneke van Eijken and Cedric Ryngaert, ‘Statelessness Determination Procedures: Towards a Bespoke Procedure for Nigeria’ (2020) 2(1) Statelessness & Citizenship Review 86, 87. 3