Statelessness in Asia

Michelle Foster is a Professor and Director of the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at Melbourne Law School. Elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, Michelle is a leading international authority on refugee law, human rights and statelessness. Jaclyn Neo is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Centre for Asian Legal Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Law. Jaclyn is an award-winning scholar of comparative constitutional law as well as law and religion in Asia. Christoph Sperfeldt is Senior Lecturer at Macquarie Law School and Honorary Fellow at the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at the University of Melbourne. He has worked for more than fifteen years on human rights and statelessness in Southeast Asia.

1. Statelessness in Asia: causes, conditions, and challenges in context Michelle Foster, Jaclyn Neo and Christoph Sperfeldt; Part I. Asia and the Phenomenon of Statelessness: 2. Stateless in South Asia: a legal history of challenges to immigration, nationality, and citizenship regimes in Sri Lanka Kalyani Ramnath; 3. Discrimination and childhood statelessness in Southeast Asia Rodziana Mohamed Razali; 4. Hidden statelessness dimensions of state succession in Central Asia: transit to a solution for stateless trans-border wives and children Aziz Ismatov; 5. Conflict and statelessness: a case study of descendants of kuomintang secret army in Thailand Sanzhuan Guo; Part II. Statelessness and Intersecting Vulnerabilities: 6. Learning to be stateless: life stages and childhood statelessness in Northern Thailand Janepicha Cheva-Isarakul; 7. Gender, nationality and statelessness: marriage migration to East Asia Susan Kneebone; 8. Doubtful citizens: irregularization and precarious citizenship in contemporary India Mohsin Alam Bhat; 9. Statelessness and heritagisation in Southeast Asia: cultural tourism, festivals and the marginalisation of transborder mobile maritime communities Greg Accaioli, Helen Brunt and Julian Clifton; Part III. Challenges and Prospects for Change: 10. Stranded in Limbo: (De Facto) denationalisation and statelessness of Indonesian Foreign terrorist fighters Matthew Seet; 11. Statelessness in Myanmar: the Rohingya moment after the 2021 coup Nyi Nyi Kyaw; 12. Addressing statelessness through the human rights and development frameworks: reforming or reinforcing the status quo? Amal de Chickera and Rehana Mohammad; 13. Persuading to ratify: a calculus of the ratification of the statelessness convention in Asia Francis Tom Temprosa; Index.