Front Matter
Contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
A Stateless Poem
Introduction
Part I: Producing and maintaining statelessness
Figure 1 New Democracy II
1 The problem of citizenship in global governance
2 Fonua cultural statelessness in the Pacific and the effects of climate change
3 A regional politics of foreignness and Pakistan's Afghan refugees
4 The statelessness of refugees
Figure 2 Dissolution of the moonbeam union
5 Statelessness and the administrative state
6 Language and statelessness
7 The weaponisation of citizenship
8 Statelessness and governance in the absence of recognition
9 Legal identity and rebel governance
Part II: Living with the problem of citizenship
Figure 3 Obsession
10 Transnational surrogacy, biocitizenship, and statelessness
11 The birth certificate as fetish object in the governance of citizenship and its presumed sex and gender norms
12 Seeking 'a right to belong'
13 Being excluded or excluding yourself?
Figure 4 Letter
14 Statelessness and governance at the periphery
15 Ageing and stateless
16 Asking the 'other questions'
Part III: Rethinking governance
Figure 5 I don't recognize me in the shadows
17 The ethics of quantifying statelessness
18 Registering persons at risk of statelessness in Kenya
19 Too little too late?
20 Statelessness elimination through legal fiction
Figure 6 All faces
21 Supra-national jurisprudence
22 Civil society advocacy
23 The construction of a Brazilian 'hospitality policy' and the adoption of a new legal framework for stateless persons
24 Ideological governance of citizen and non-citizen others in Kuwait
25 'We are not stateless! You can call us what you like, but we are citizens of Myanmar!' Rohingya resistance and the stateless label
26 United Stateless in the United States
Figure 7 We are not immigrants
Index