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One Step Forward, Half Step Back: the Still Long Way to Go to End Statelessness in Madagascar

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: This work sheds light on the still unresolved plight of statelessness in Madagascar, a country that has a long history of stateless communities, above all among Karana, of Indian origin and Muslim religion. In spite of several important steps undertaken in order to eradicate stateslessness in the country (see, for example, the adoption of the 2016 Law on Nationality that partially amendended the 1960 Code on Nationality) the path for the complete eradication of statelessness in the country seems still quite long because of the lack of will by local authorities who seem to ignore the conditions of thousands of people, born and bred in Madagascar that, apparently for no specific reason, still do not hold Malagasy citizenship, bringing them to be deprived of several basic rights which citizens are normally entitled to. In this respect, the fact that Madagascar is still not a party of several important international legal instruments adopted to eradicate statelessness, does not facilitate the situation of the thousands of stateless people in Madagascar.

Source: AFRICAN HUMAN MOBILITY REVIEW

DOI: 10.14426/ahmr.v9i3.1131

Author: Cristiano\ d'Orsi

Institution: University of Johannesburg

Language: English

Topic: Migration, Refugees, and Integration

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: University of the Western Cape, University of Johannesburg, University of Cape Town