Understanding Statelessness

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.

• Part I: Defining StatelessnessIntroduction Part II: Living StatelessnessChapter One Introduction: Providing a Framework for Understanding StatelessnessTendayi Bloom, Katherine Tonkiss, Phillip ColeChapter Two The State and the Stateless: the Legacy of Hannah Arendt ReconsideredBrad BlitzChapter Three Worthy of Rights: Statelessness as a Cause and Symptom of MarginalizationLindsey KingstonChapter Four Contexts of Statelessness: The Concepts ‘Statelessness In Situ’ and‘Statelessness in the Migratory Context’Caia VlieksChapter Five Unpacking StatelessnessLaura van Waas, Amal de ChickeraChapter Six Race-based Statelessness in the Dominican RepublicJillian BlakeChapter Seven Statelessness, Ungoverned Spaces and Security in KenyaOscar Gakuo MwangiChapter Eight Citizenship, Gender and Statelessness in NepalSubin Mulmi, Sara ShneidermanChapter Nine Members of Colonised Groups, Statelessness, and the Right to Have RightsTendayi BloomChapter Ten Why End Statelessness?Katja SwiderPart III: Theorising StatelessnessChapter Eleven Realizing the Rights of Stateless Persons: The Doctrine of Fiduciary Duty and the Role of Municipal GovernmentDavid PassarelliChapter Twelve The Right to Family: Protecting Stateless ChildrenPatti Tamara LenardChapter Thirteen Statelessness and the Performance of Citizenship-As-NationalityKatherine TonkissChapter Fourteen Insider Theory and the Construction of StatelessnessPhillip Cole

'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)