Nationality in Non-International Armed Conflicts

Lunch Seminar with Andrea Marilyn Pragashini Immanuel 

When: 25 June 2025, 1pm – 2pm

Where: Deakin Burwood Campus, LC7.032 Moot Court Boardroom or via Zoom

Deakin’s Centre for Law as Protection is pleased to announce that Andrea Marilyn Pragashini Immanuel will be delivering a guest lecture on Nationality and Armed Groups During Non-International Armed Conflicts.

During non-international armed conflicts (NIACs), armed groups, as parties to the conflict, may engage in the grant and the deprivation of nationality, in the territory under their effective control. In relation to the grant of nationality, armed groups might grant legal identity documents related to nationality or nationality documents in the name of the territorial state. They may also grant such documents in the name of the de facto state that they may establish during the conflict. Armed groups might engage in the ‘deprivation of nationality’, either by destroying legal identity documents related to nationality or by erasing the link that individuals have with the territory in which they are resident. In such cases, although the territorial, sovereign state is not the entity depriving individuals of their nationality, such actions of armed groups leave individuals at risk of statelessness. Drawing from my ongoing PhD research on this topic, in this talk, I will engage with key questions relating to international law’s regulation of nationality during NIAC within armed group-controlled territory.

 

Andrea Marilyn Pragashini Immanuel

Andrea Marilyn Pragashini Immanuel is a PhD Researcher and Graduate Researcher Academic Associate at the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. Her PhD is titled, ‘The Right to Nationality During Armed Conflict’ and explores the regulation of nationality and statelessness during armed conflict under international law. As a Graduate Researcher Academic Associate, she teaches and researches on human rights law and statelessness. She is also the Managing Editor of the Statelessness and Citizenship Review.

Previously, Andrea worked with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) India, conducting refugee status determination. From 2019, she worked as Assistant Professor of Legal Practice at Jindal Global Law School in India, where she taught courses on statelessness, interpretation of statutes and legal drafting, and was affiliated with the Centre for Public Interest Law and Centre for International Legal Studies. She has researched extensively on statelessness and international law and her work has been published in Asian Journal of International Law, Citizenship Studies, Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies and Statelessness and Citizenship Review.

 

Andrea holds a LLM in Public International Law from Utrecht University, the Netherlands. During her LLM, she also worked as a Research Associate with the Public International Law and Policy Group. She is qualified to practice law in India.

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