By Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion
ISI Podcasts help to unpack different dimensions to the issue of statelessness, and to explore challenges and opportunities in working to ensure the right to a nationality around the world.Article
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The podcast currently has 22 episodes available.
The concluding episode featuring Amal de Chickera, Areej Al-Shammiry, Catherine Harrington, Subim Mulmi, Shahd Qannam, is a three-part roundtable with conversations across the different themes, allowing the guest speakers to speak more holistically about the issues at hand & lessons learned.
The episode is divided into 3 main parts:
1. Relationship between statelessness and discrimination
2. Emerging trends and debates around statelessness
3. How to centre stateless individuals and those with lived experience in the field.
Amal de Chickera is a co-founder and one of the Co-Directors of the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, the first and the only human rights NGO working on statelessness globally. Amal is a Sri Lankan human rights lawyer, advocate and activist, with expertise in the right to nationality, statelessness and discrimination.
Areej Al-Shammiry is a researcher and a community activist. She researches, writes, advocates and consults on statelessness. Her work is inspired by post/de-colonial, Marxist, abolitionist, Indigenous and anti-racist feminist frameworks.
Catherine Harrington is the Campaign Manager for the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights, a coalition of UN agencies, international, regional and local NGOs, academics and civil society partners, housed within the Women's Refugee Commission.
Subin Mulmi is the Human rights lawyer and researcher based in Nepal. He is currently the Executive Director at Nationality for All (NFA).
Shahd Qannam is a Palestinian activist and researcher, currently working on her PhD in Law at the City Law School, City, University of London. Shahd is also a programme officer at the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion.
The Colonialism episode by guest speakers Joshua Castellino and Subin Mulmi, discusses the history and impact of colonialism and its role in creating statelessness. The causes of statelessness that exist today were habituated by the colonial powers to their own benefits with the forced displacement of the colonised leaving thousands of people stateless.
Joshua Castellino is the Executive Director of Minority Rights Group International and Professor of International and Comparative Law at Derby University, United Kingdom.
Subin Mulmi is a Human rights lawyer and researcher based in Nepal. He is currently the Executive Director at Nationality for All (NFA).
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The State Formation episode by guest speakers Shahd Qannam and Areej Al-Shammiry, explores the roots of the idea of “nation” and the process of state formation. Statelessness dates back to the emergence of nation states and state formation in general. Some examples of where this has occurred is in Kuwait with the Bidoon community, and in Israel with the Palestinians. The guest speakers discuss the idea of borders and its artificial role in “protecting” nation states.
Shahd Qannam is a Palestinian activist and researcher, currently working on her PhD in Law at the City Law School, City, University of London. Shahd is also a programme officer at the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion.
Areej Al-Shammiry is a researcher and a community activist. She researches, writes, advocates and consults on statelessness. Her work is inspired by post/de-colonial, Marxist, abolitionist, Indigenous and anti-racist feminist frameworks.
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Support the showThe Digital ID episode featuring Laura Bingham and Mustafa Mahmoud, looks at digitalisation of IDs and the impact this has on statelessness. Colonial powers introduced the idea of documentation to determine who “belongs” to the state and who does not. IDs are another form of discrimination against stateless people that first started with colonialism and this part of the podcast unleashes the history of documentation, politics of digital ID and the discrimination against stateless individuals through the lens of colonialism.
Laura Bingham is an international human rights lawyer and Executive Director of the Institute for Law, Innovation, and Technology at Temple Law School, United States.
Mustafa Mahmoud is a Co-Director of Namati with over nine years of experience supporting partner organizations working with community-based paralegals on Citizenship rights, inclusion, and statelessness in Kenya, Bangladesh, Jordan, and Myanmar.
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The Racism & Xenophobia episode featuring Tendayi Achiume and Jaivet Ealom, explores the relationship between institutional racism, xenophobia and statelessness. Many states, whether through their politics or laws, discriminate against minorities, denying them equal access to citizenship. This discrimination against the stateless is rooted in the idea of “outsider”. Colonialism created a system of hierarchy where certain groups think of themselves as superior and more deserving of life. As a result, statelessness is manufactured, and the stateless are denied access to fundamental rights.
Tendayi Achiume is a Professor of Law at UCLA Law School and former UN Special Rapporteur on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance.
Jaivet Ealom is a Toronto-based author, former refugee, refugee advocate, and the only person known to have escaped from Manus Island Detention Centre in Papua New Guinea. Ealom was born in Mynamar where he faced persecution, as a Rohingya ethnic minority.
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Our Patriarchy episode by guest speakers Catherine Harrington and Patricia Low, discusses the patriarchy and its role in creating statelessness. The episode will analyse deep-seated patriarchy, how it views and constructs identity, political participation and gendered roles, and how this creates layers of discrimination against women—women are often seen in opposition to men and their rights, and lives, are at the discretion of men.
Catherine Harrington is the Campaign Manager for the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights, a coalition of UN agencies, international, regional and local NGOs, academics and civil society partners, housed within the Women's Refugee Commission.
Patricia Low is from Malaysia and she is a writer, a mother of two, and an advocate from the Family Frontiers Mothers’ Network. She is one of the many women affected by Malaysia’s gender-unequal citizenship law, which denies citizenship by operation of law to children born abroad to women married to foreign spouses.
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Our introductory episode by guest speaker Amal de Chickera, discusses the overall aim of the podcast, the themes that will be covered, the structure of the podcast, and a brief historical background on the issue. The episode highlights the different themes that will be covered throughout the podcast series including history of colonialism, patriarchy, state formation, xenophobia and racism, and digital ID and documentation.
Amal de Chickera is a co-founder and one of the Co-Directors of the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, the first and the only human rights NGO working on statelessness globally. Amal is a Sri Lankan human rights lawyer, advocate and activist, with expertise in the right to nationality, statelessness and discrimination.
2 NEW EPISODES EVERY MONDAY, 12 JUNE - 3 JULY 2023.
This new ISI podcast explores the relationship between discrimination and statelessness through various historical, social and political lenses. The podcast is a series of curated conversations between individuals with lived and learnt expertise, on the intersection between statelessness and various root causes of discrimination.
The podcast serves as a critical tool to help us analyse and better understand the role of colonialism in creating stateless populations by discussing different themes including the history of colonialism, patriarchy, state formation, xenophobia and racism, digitalisation of IDs.
2 NEW EPISODES EVERY MONDAY, 12 JUNE - 3 JULY 2023.
The concluding episode reflects on the challenges, successes and cases presented throughout the series, and offers some conclusions while also setting a possible agenda to increase positive change.
The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion has partnered with UNICEF to produce this six-part podcast series, ‘What’s Best for Children’s Nationality’. The series aims to build knowledge around childhood statelessness and the right of every child to a nationality by exploring good practices in the field with examples, challenges and successes from real-life settings. You can share your questions and reflections on the issues raised using the hashtags #NationalityForChildren and/or #ForInclusiveSocieties and find us through our twitter handle @institute_si. You can also send an email to [email protected].
Narrator and partner in production is Andy Clark from Podcast4u. Music comes from Blue Dot Sessions and Podington Bear under Creative Commons Non-Commercial Attribution License.
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Episode five of the What’s Best for Children’s Nationality Podcast series zooms back out from the specific country contexts to explore the joint, global UNHCR-UNICEF initiative: the Coalition on Every Child’s Right to a Nationality. UNHCR’s Radha Govil and UNICEF’s Kerry Neal highlight their organisation’s involvement in this Coalition and some real-life problems of childhood Statelessness that they’ve come across through their work.
The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion has partnered with UNICEF to produce this six-part podcast series, ‘What’s Best for Children’s Nationality’. The series aims to build knowledge around childhood statelessness and the right of every child to a nationality by exploring good practices in the field with examples, challenges and successes from real-life settings. You can share your questions and reflections on the issues raised using the hashtags #NationalityForChildren and/or #ForInclusiveSocieties and find us through our twitter handle @institute_si. You can also send an email to [email protected].
With thanks to the following people for their participation in this episode:
Narrator and partner in production is Andy Clark from Podcast4u. Music comes from Blue Dot Sessions and Podington Bear under Creative Commons Non-Commercial Attribution License.
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The podcast currently has 22 episodes available.