Dr Tendayi Bloom - Statelessness Seminar Series

The Statelessness Seminar Series 2018 started on 26 July 2018 with a presentation by Dr Tendayi Bloom of the Open University in the UK.

"A noncitizenist look at statelessness and the global compact for migration"

Our world is commonly understood as a world of citizens. Citizenship is often ideologically assumed to be desirable, enfranchising and rights-providing. This paper argues that this is a mischaracterisation and defends a more complex noncitizenist approach. It explores what this means for understandings of statelessness and for how statelessness is addressed in the global compact for migration in particular.

Tendayi Bloom is a Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at The Open University in the UK. She is author of Noncitizenism: Recognising Noncitizen Capabilities in a World of Citizens (Routledge, 2018) and editor most recently of Understanding Statelessness (Routledge, 2017, with K Tonkiss and P Cole).