Talk:Statelessness

I think you chose a very interesting topic, and one that we do not hear about quite so often. It really stood out to me that discriminatory and patriarchal nationality laws are a driving cause of statelessness, and that children account for over one third of this. My only suggestion would be to really bring this point home and tie it to intersectionality. For example, how one can be a women or a child and also stateless etc, and what that might mean.

Thank you for your article. I can say that this is not the topic that we can commonly hear from the media or the surroundings, but definitely it is the important topic. Also, your article gave me to build the bases of the cencepts and the current situations. However, I am wondering if you can elaborate this with the possible solutions that UN suggested like refugee programs?

I really enjoyed reading your topic on this wiki as it doesn't seem to be something that people are talking about too often. I think it would be important (and it might actually be part of the criteria) to add a "Summary" heading at the end of your wiki in order to really tie everything together. Also maybe consider how the intersectionality of children who do not have a state plays into justice; i.e poor children, mixed ethnicity children, etc. Otherwise, great post and easy to follow.

I think your choice of topic is really great and relevant now more than ever. I think it might be helpful/interesting to add a section on statelessness and global warming. As global warming continues to become more and more severe and sea levels then continue to rise, it is inevitable that certain countries (island nations) will one day disappear (be under water). If/when that happens, citizens would have to migrate elsewhere, but with no country to return to/exist, what would that mean for citizenship?

I am wondering if this phenomenon about statelessness induced by global warming would be a new form of statelessness (or factor contributing to it)? Is this already a reality?

Great post so far! Hope this might be of use.

I think Beatrice's idea is great! If it can be accommodated that would be a fantastic subtopic.

Overall, I think the original article is very good summary of an under-discussed topic. Because this is something that I -and I believe many others- don't know a lot about, I would suggest incorporating additional examples because the ones you do have are very helpful.

In your article, you mentioned how the lack of passports and government documents inhibits ones ability to travel and immigrate. Not having a passport doesn't mean you're a citizen of course, I personally know of a lot of people that don't renew their passports. Do you think there would be a positive impact if governments reduced the procedural barriers and financial costs of obtaining a passport?