Statelessness in the European Union

Caroline Sawyer is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Victoria University, Wellington. A former practising solicitor, she has developed university teaching courses in migration and nationality issues for undergraduates and postgraduates and was also UK Country Expert for the EUI's recent comparative study of access to citizenship in Europe. Brad K. Blitz is Professor of Human and Political Geography at Kingston University, Research Associate in the Department of International Development at the University of Oxford, and Director of the International Observatory on Statelessness.

1. Introduction - statelessness in the European Union Caroline Sawyer and Brad K. Blitz; 2. Undocumented migrants: an Arendtian perspective Monika Krause; 3. The rights of non-citizens in political thought Matthew Gibney; 4. Statelessness in international and regional law Caroline Sawyer; 5. From strangers to citizens: the international regime on statelessness Brad K. Blitz; 6. Methodology of the study Brad K. Blitz and Caroline Sawyer; 7. Effective statelessness in the UK Caroline Sawyer, Brad K. Blitz and Miguel Otero-Iglesias; 8. The sans-papiers in France Arnaud Lucien and David Marrani; 9. Stateless Russians in Estonia Raivo Vetik; 10. The erased of Slovenia Jelka Zorn; 11. Analysis Brad K. Blitz and Caroline Sawyer; 12. Conclusions Caroline Sawyer and Brad K. Blitz.