On the Right to Have Nationality Rights: Statelessness, Citizenship and Human Rights

This article considers contemporary predicaments of nationality rights against the background of reflection on Arendt’s phrase ‘the right to have rights’. Addressing the right to a nationality, the right not to be arbitrarily deprived of one’s nationality, the right to change one’s nationality and the right to naturalize, it argues that Arendt’s concerns remain live ones for us and indicates what conception of the institution of citizenship and what conception of international order would serve to realize a right to have nationality rights.