Understanding Statelessness

Tendayi Bloom (Editor), Katherine Tonkiss (Editor), Phillip Cole (Editor)

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Abstract

Understanding Statelessness offers a comprehensive, in-depth examination of statelessness. The volume presents the theoretical, legal and political concept of statelessness through the work of leading critical thinkers in this area. They offer a critique of the existing framework through detailed and theoretically-based scrutiny of challenging contexts of statelessness in the real world and suggest ways forward.

The volume is divided into three parts. The first, ‘Defining Statelessness’, features chapters exploring conceptual issues in the definition of statelessness. The second, ‘Living Statelessness’, uses case studies of statelessness contexts from States across global regions to explore the diversity of contemporary lived realities of statelessness and to interrogate standard theoretical presentations. ‘Theorising Statelessness’, the final part, approaches the theorisation of statelessness from a variety of theoretical perspectives, building upon the earlier sections. All the chapters come together to suggest a rethinking of how we approach statelessness. They raise questions and seek answers with a view to contributing to the development of a theoretical approach which can support more just policy development.

Throughout the volume, readers are encouraged to connect theoretical concepts, real-world accounts and challenging analyses. The result is a rich and cohesive volume which acts as both a state-of-the-art statement on statelessness research and a call to action for future work in the field. It will be of great interest to graduates and scholars of political theory, human rights, law and international development, as well as those looking for new approaches to thinking about statelessness.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherRoutledge
Number of pages300
Edition1
ISBN (Electronic)9781315200460
ISBN (Print)9780367138608, 9781138711235
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Jun 2017
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameRoutledge Studies in Human Rights
PublisherRoutledge

Keywords

  • Statelessness
  • Citizenship
  • Rights
  • politics
  • law
  • political theory

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