Sweden - 2012
Does statelessness serve as a ground for discrimination in access to public goods and services and/or deprivation of economic and social rights?
- Code:
- RED5
- Key Area:
- Anti-discrimination Legislation & Implementation
- Strand(s):
- Discrimination
| Short Answer |
No. |
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| Qualitative Info |
In the Discrimination Act (SFS 2008:567), statelessness is not mentioned as a protected ground of discrimination. In practice, discrimination on the ground of statelessness would be considered as discrimination on the ground of ethnicity. According to the Legal Network's Report on measures to combat discrimination, Directives 2000/43/EC and 2000/78/EC, Country Report 2010, Sweden, Per Norberg, " a stateless person will always have an ethnic origin" (p. 77). Source: Discrimination Act (SFS 2008:567), http://www.do.se/Documents/pdf/new_discrimination_law.pdf |
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| Groups affected/interested | Migrants, Refugees, Roma & Travelers, Muslims, Ethnic minorities, Religious minorities, Linguistic minorities, Asylum seekers, Africans/black people | |
| Type (R/D) | Anti-migrant/xenophobia, Anti-semitism, Islamophobia, Afrophobia, Anti-roma/ romaphobia, Xenophobia | |
| Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas | Anti-discrimination | |
| External Url | http://www.do.se/Documents/pdf/new_discrimination_law.pdf | |
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