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THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE RIGHT TO A NATIONALITY AND STATELESSNESS IN HUNGARY
Blanka UJVÁRI
From the second half of the 19th century four pieces of legislation regulating citizenship in detail were enacted in Hungary. Hungary has ratified the
international conventions on statelessness, so the legislator wanted to find a solution for those who apply for statelessness status in Hungary. A stateless person
is stripped of the basic rights that every national enjoys. Statelessness is the legal consequence of unequal and discriminatory acts which lead to the exclusion and
marginalization of the persons concerned. Even where the legal status of such marginalized people is resolved by the government, because they have no legal existence
in the past, they continue to face serious obstacles and bureaucratic problems. This study provides an overview of the history of Hungarian citizenship law, the
statelessness determination procedure, the relevant case law of the Constitutional Court, and the Sudita Keita v. Hungary judgment of the European Court of Human
Rights in the context of statelessness.
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