Chris Nash is the Director and co-founder of the European Network on Statelessness. He has worked in the refugee and migration field for 18 years, initially as an asylum lawyer and then at the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, the Refugee Council of Australia, Amnesty International and Asylum Aid. He has written widely on asylum, migration and statelessness policy, and is joint author of the 2011 UNHCR/Asylum Aid report Mapping Statelessness in the United Kingdom.
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Published in: 50.50Locked in limbo: the prolonged detention of stateless people in Europe must end nowSome stateless people are detained for months, even years, without any real prospect of their cases being resolved....
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Published in: Shine A LightDelayed lives — the hidden misery of stateless people locked up in the UKAlienated, homeless, denied the right to work, criminalised.
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Published in: 50.50Still stateless, still suffering: It’s time for European leaders to take actionLife without a nationality means life in limbo. Statelessness is a man-made phenomenon which afflicts millions...
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Published in: 50.50Stateless in the UK: amid the chaos, a groundbreaking step forwardNew immigration rules in the UK designed to help stateless people come into force at a time when legal aid has been...
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Published in: 50.50Statelessness in the UK: “my biggest worry is staying like this”
There is no dedicated system or procedure in the UK for identifying stateless people and resolving their plight, so...