"As opposed to the traditional state-centered and legalistic conceptualization of statelessness the core argument of this volume opens a series of novel analytical trajectories. It fosters an examination of the conditions of de facto statelessness, thus blurring distinctions between citizen and stateless persons. To the same effect, it shifts the analysis towards a concern with precarity and abandonment. Each chapter helps us (re)think 'familiar' debates—such as those on logistics, urban spaces, migration across the Mediterranean, and others—through this reframed concept of statelessness, broadening the significance of the volume's contribution beyond the specific realm in which it emerges. The most significant aspect of this volume is not so much that it 'contributes to the field,' but rather that it attempts to create one." — Paolo Novak, SOAS University of London