Indigenous classified as foreigners Denationalization as a Policy of Exclusion in Syria

This paper documents the policy of citizenship deprivation applied to tens of thousands of Kurds in Al-Hassakah Governorate in northeastern Syria, beginning with the exceptional census conducted by the Syrian state on a single day, 5 October 1962, pursuant to Legislative Decree No. 93, issued on 23 August of the same year. The census resulted