TY - BOOK AU - Waas,Laura van ED - School of Human Rights Research. TI - Nationality matters : statelessness under international law: statelessness under international law T2 - School of Human Rights Research series SN - 9789050958547 (pbk.) AV - K7128 .S7 W33 PY - 2008/// CY - Antwerp, Portland PB - Intersentia KW - Statelessness KW - Apatridie KW - Conflict of laws KW - Droit international privé KW - Citizenship KW - Nationalité (Droit international) N1 - Texte remanié de la thèse de doctorat de l'auteur -- Maastricht University, Maastricht, 2008; "School of Human Rights Research"--Couv; Nationality matters : an introduction -- The statelessness phenomenon and a first encounter with the international response -- Background to preventing statelessness -- Addressing the technical causes of statelessness -- Addressing statelessness resulting from the arbitrary deprivation of nationality -- Addressing statelessness in the context of state succession -- Addressing the "new" causes of statelessness -- International law and the prevention of statelessness -- Background to protecting stateless persons -- Protecting the civil and political rights of stateless persons -- Protecting the economic, social and cultural rights of the stateless -- Protecting the special needs of the stateless -- International law and the protection of stateless persons -- What future for the statelessness conventions? ER -