Statelessness determination: the Swiss experience

Abstract

While a detailed law on statelessness determination is recommended by UNHCR and others, Swiss practice in statelessness determination has evolved without one. Despite this, Swiss practice has been shown to be rather progressive, at least in some areas of statelessness recognition and includes better treatment of the stateless in comparison with refugees.

Keywords

• refugee
• IDP
• stateless
• internal displacement
• forced migration
• migration