Statelessness in Asia

Michelle Foster

ISBN 10: 1009399594 / ISBN 13: 9781009399593

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2025

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This interdisciplinary collection, edited by leading scholars, provides the first book-length treatment of statelessness in the region in which most stateless persons reside. This book fills a critical gap in understanding statelessness in Asia, offering a unique interdisciplinary and comprehensive set of perspectives. This book brings case studies and expertise together to explore statelessness in Asia, itself a diverse region, and offers new insights as to what it means to be, de facto and de jure, stateless. In identifying key points of similarities and divergences across the region, as well as critical nodes for comparisons, this book aims to provide fresh frameworks for comparative research in this area.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Statelessness in Asia
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009399594
• ISBN 13: 9781009399593
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 157H x 26D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 157 millimeters height by 26 millimeters depth
• Weight: 731 grams

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Synopsis

This interdisciplinary collection, edited by leading scholars, provides the first book-length treatment of statelessness in the region in which most stateless persons reside. This book fills a critical gap in understanding statelessness in Asia, offering a unique interdisciplinary and comprehensive set of perspectives. This book brings case studies and expertise together to explore statelessness in Asia, itself a diverse region, and offers new insights as to what it means to be, de facto and de jure, stateless. In identifying key points of similarities and divergences across the region, as well as critical nodes for comparisons, this book aims to provide fresh frameworks for comparative research in this area.

About the Authors

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.