International Refugee Law and the Protection of Stateless Persons

Abstract

Even read purely as an addition to the burgeoning literature on statelessness, this book holds its own. But, as its title well captures, it is first and foremost a book about refugee law. As such, it does more than hold its own; it provides the first comprehensive treatment of the interaction between statelessness and refugee law. Reading it, one soon becomes aware how relatively ignored this topic has been. The UNHCR Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status (1979, reissued 2019) deals in only cursory fashion with the application of the refugee definition to stateless persons. To date, none of the UNHCR Guidelines on International Protection tackle it. With notable...