Understanding statelessness / edited by Tendayi Bloom, Katherine Tonkiss and Phillip Cole.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : providing a framework for understanding statelessness / Tendayi Bloom, Katherine Tonkiss and Phillip Cole -- Worthy of rights : statelessness as a cause and symptom of marginalisation / Lindsey N. Kingston -- Contexts of statelessness : the concepts 'statelessness in situ' and 'statelessness in the migratory context' / Caia Vlieks -- Unpacking statelessness / Laura van Waas and Amal de Chickera -- The state and the stateless : the legacy of Hannah Arendt reconsidered / Brad K. Klitz -- Challenging the disunity of statelessness in the Middle East and North Africa / Zahra al Barazi and Jason Tucker -- Race-based statelessness in the Dominican Republic / Jillian Blake -- Statelessness, ungoverned spaces and security in Kenya / Oscar Gakuo Mwangi -- Citizenship, gender and statelessness in Nepal : before and after the 2015 Constitution / Subin Mulmi and Sara Shneiderman -- Members of colonised groups, statelessness and the right to have rights / Tendayi Bloom -- Recognition, nationality, and statelessness : state-based challenges for UNHCR's plan to end statelessness / Kelly Staples -- Why end statelessness? / Katja Swider -- Realising the rights of stateless persons : the doctrine of fiduciary duty and the role of municipal government / David Passarelli -- The right to family : protecting stateless children / Patti Tamara Lenard -- Statelessness and the performance of citizenship-as-nationality / Katherine Tonkiss -- Insider theory and the construction of statelessness / Phillip Cole.

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.