Discrimination Amounting to Persecution in the Case of NM (Documented/Undocumented Bidoon: Risk) Kuwait CG [2013] UKUT 00356 (IAC)
by Katia Bianchini
Question(s) at stake
Whether Bidoon are at real risk of persecution in Kuwait; whether there is a disparity in the way documented and undocumented Bidoon are treated; and which key document forms the basis of such a distinction.
Outcome of the ruling
The appeal was allowed. Generally, only undocumented Bidoon are at real risk of persecution in Kuwait, and the key document to distinguish between documented and undocumented Bidoon is the "security card".
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Official citation
NM (documented/undocumented Bidoon: risk) Kuwait CG [2013] UKUT 00356 (IAC)
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Keywords:
Real Risk of persecution Statelessness Non-discrimination Asylum seeker
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Katia Bianchini (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Department Law and Anthropology, Germany)
Katia Bianchini is a Research Fellow of the Law and Anthropology Department of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle. She holds a law degree from the University of Pavia (Italy), an LL.M. in Comparative Laws from the University of San Diego (California, USA), and a Ph.D. in Law from the University of York (UK). Her doctoral thesis provided an empirical and legal analysis of how the 1954 UN Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons is implemented in ten EU states. She has also worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen). Before engaging in research, she practised immigration and refugee law for ten years in the UK and the USA.
Bianchini has published in the field of refugee law, statelessness, and the rule of law in the context of sea migration. Her current research builds on her expertise in human rights and Italian law and looks at the treatment of deceased sea migrants in the South of Italy.