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and International Refugee Law examines the extent to which theConvention relating to the Status of Refugees protects de jure stateless persons, While de jure stateless persons are clearly protected by theConvention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, this book seeks to explore the extent to which such persons are also entitled to refugee status.
The questions addressed include the following: When is a person 'without a nationality' for the purpose of theRefugee Convention What constitutes one's country of former habitual residence as a proxy to one's country of nationality When does being stateless give rise to a wellfounded fear of persecution for reasons specified in theRefugee Convention and/or UNHCR mandate What are the circumstances under which statelessness constitutes persecution or inhuman or degrading treatment How are courts assessing individual risk or threat to stateless persons

The book draws on historical and contemporary interpretation of international law based on the travaux preparatoires to theRefugee Convention and its antecedents, academic writing, UNHCR policy and

legal documents, UN Human Rights Council resolutions, UN Human Rights Committee general comments, UN Secretary General reports, and UN General Assembly resolutions.
It is also based on original comparative analysis of existing jurisprudence worldwide relating to claims to refugee status based on or around statelessness, By examining statelessness through the prism of international refugee law, this book fills a critical gap in existing scholarship,
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