The Critical Statelessness Studies Blog serves as a space for short reflective pieces by individuals working on statelessness from a critical perspective. PhD students and early career academics are particularly encouraged to consider the Blog as a venue to showcase elements of their work in an accessible and digestible format.
To submit a blog proposal, or find out more about The Critical Statelessness Studies Project, please contact Deirdre Brennan and Thomas McGee.
NB: Finalised blog entries should be limited to 800 words. Please note that blog entries represent the views of the authors and not those of the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness.
Blog Posts
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Statistical Reporting and the Representation of Stateless People: A Critical Note
In this blog, Brad Blitz, Professor of International Politics and Policy at University College London, calls into question the relatively recent attempts to quantify statelessness and the implications of such for stateless people.
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Caring about Statelessness: Unpacking the “End Statelessness" Campaigns through a Feminist Ethics of Care
Deirdre Brennan
This blog argues for an examination of the pervasive social function of care amongst people affected by statelessness. -
Reclaiming Statelessness Narratives by Resisting ‘Deficit’ Discourse and Amplifying the Voices of Stateless People
Jeanine Hourani
In this blog, Director of Road to Refuge Jeanine Hourani reflects on efforts to change the narratives around statelessness by amplifying the voices of people with lived experience. -
Critical sociolinguistic ethnography as a lens to statelessness: a case from the Bidoon community in Kuwait
Ahmad Jaber
In this blog entry, Ahmad proposes critical sociolinguistic ethnography (CSE) as a counterhegemonic approach to understanding statelessness. -
Decolonising statelessness: unpacking colonial legacies and deconstructing forms of epistemic violence
Malak Benslama-Dabdoub
This thought-provoking piece speaks to the value of decolonial theory and methodology for the statelessness field. -
Knowledge to Empower: Closing the Gap between Stateless People and Statelessness Research
Christiana Bukalo
In this blog entry, Christiana, founder of State Free, reflects on her experiences researching statelessness as a stateless person. -
Tackling the Nation-State ‘Container Model’ in Statelessness Research
Victoria Reitter
This piece critiques the heavy reliance on quantitative data in the statelessness field and seeks to expand the lens through an ethnographic approach. -
On Stateless Activism and True Engagement
Haqqi Bahram
This blog entry considers challenges faced by stateless activists in achieving real engagement within the statelessness sector. -
Experiencing the Anticipation of Statelessness – A South Asian Perspective of Mass Exclusion from Citizenship
Anubhav Dutt Tiwari
This blog entry calls for attention to be paid to the ways in which statelessness is in fact experienced before it is formally realised and before its consequences start taking shape -
Introductory Blog: Taking a “Critical” Approach to Statelessness
Deirdre Brennan & Thomas McGee
The Critical Statelessness Studies Project emerged to promote reflexive critical analyses of mainstream approaches to statelessness that have emerged over the past decade or so in both academia and civil society.