1st Edition
Understanding Statelessness
Preface
Matthew Gibney
Photograph - Saiful Huq Omi
Chapter 1: Introduction to Understanding Statelessness
Tendayi Bloom, Katherine Tonkiss and Phillip Cole
Part I: Defining Statelessness
Photograph - John Halaka
Chapter 2: Worthy of Rights: Statelessness as a Cause and Symptom of Marginalisation
Lindsey N Kingston
Chapter 3: Contexts of Statelessness: The Concepts ‘Statelessness In Situ’ and ‘Statelessness in the Migratory Context’
Caia Vlieks
Chapter 4: Unpacking Statelessness
Laura van Waas and Amal de Chickera
Chapter 5: The State and the Stateless: the Legacy of Hannah Arendt Reconsidered
Brad Blitz
Part II: Living Statelessness
Photograph - Logan Abassi
Chapter 6: Challenging the disunity of statelessness in the Middle East and North Africa
Zahra Albarazi and Jason Tucker
Chapter 7: Race-based Statelessness in the Dominican Republic
Jillian Blake
Chapter 8: Statelessness, Ungoverned Spaces and Security in Kenya
Oscar Gakuo Mwangi
Photograph- Greg Constantine
Chapter 9: Citizenship, Gender and Statelessness in Nepal
Subin Mulmi and Sara Shneiderman
Chapter 10: Members of Colonised Groups, Statelessness, and the Right to Have Rights
Tendayi Bloom
Chapter 11: Recognition, nationality, and statelessness: State-based challenges for UNHCR’s plan to end statelessness
Kelly Staples
Part III: Theorising Statelessness
Photograph - Lodoe Laura
Chapter 12: Why End Statelessness?
Katja Swider
Chapter 13: Realising the Rights of Stateless Persons: The Doctrine of Fiduciary Duty and the Role of Municipal Government
David Passarelli
Chapter 14: The Right to Family: Protecting Stateless Children
Patti Tamara Lenard
Chapter 15: Statelessness and the Performance of Citizenship-As-Nationality
Katherine Tonkiss
Chapter 16: Insider Theory and the Construction of Statelessness
Phillip Cole
Photograph - Denis Bosnic
Biography
Tendayi Bloom is a Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at the Open University, UK.
Phillip Cole is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of West of England, UK.
Katherine Tonkiss is a Lecturer in Sociology and Policy at Aston University, UK.
'This book offers timely analysis on many of the key questions confronting stakeholders working on statelessness, and will be an invaluable resource for a growing global civil society coalition committed to tackling the problem' – Chris Nash, Director, European Network on Statelessness
‘This outstanding book, enriched by a collective as well as separate and insightful chapters by its editors and incisive chapters by its distinguished contributors, illuminates both theoretical and practical aspects of statelessness as the dark side of modernity.’ - Engin Isin, Professor of International Politics, School of Politics and International Relations (SPIR), Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and University of London Institute in Paris (ULIP)
'It is fundamental reading for graduates and scholars of migration, human rights, political theory, law and international development. The effort of the editors and authors to bring an exceptional publication on such an important topic deserves praise. This book is thought-provoking and worthy of reading especially for those who are interested in deepening their knowledge of the many contexts and conditions of statelessness.' Juliana da Penha, freelance journalist and community worker developing various projects with migrant communities in Italy and Scotland
