Sing’Oei, Abraham Korir --- "Citizenship in Kenya: The Nubian Case" [2011] ELECD 170; in Blitz, K. Brad; Lynch, Maureen (eds), "Statelessness and Citizenship" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)

Book Title: Statelessness and Citizenship

Editor(s): Blitz, K. Brad; Lynch, Maureen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849800679

Section: Chapter 3

Section Title: Citizenship in Kenya: The Nubian Case

Author(s): Sing’Oei, Abraham Korir

Number of pages: 21

Extract:

3. Citizenship in Kenya: the Nubian
case
Abraham Korir Sing'Oei




Source: © UNHCR/Greg Constantine 2010.


Figure 3.1 Unemployed Nubian youth collect garbage to help clean up
the Nubian sections of Kibera and earn extra money. Nubian
youth must go through a vetting process and continue to have
difficulties obtaining Kenyan national ID cards.

To assess the benefits of citizenship to former stateless persons and com-
munities in Kenya, this chapter addresses two interrelated questions.
First, does the conferment of juridical citizenship make any difference
to the human rights situation of individuals and groups in Kenya? To
respond to this question, an analysis of citizenship from a historical,
legal and policy context is undertaken. Second, how has the granting of

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juridical citizenship impacted a former stateless community? The case of
the Nubian community in Kenya will be evaluated.
This chapter draws on analysis of legal and non-legal material in the
field of migration, international law and human rights, specifically on the
topic of citizenship and its related dimensions, statelessness and the rights
of non-nationals. Media reports, which constitute important sources of
information, reports by treaty bodies and the observations or conclu-
sions of these institutions are also reviewed. This chapter makes use of
information obtained from focus group discussions and selected unstruc-
tured interviews carried out by the author in 2008 and 2009. The aim of
this approach was to ensure, in the light of resource constraints, that the
largest possible number ...