TY - JOUR
T1 - Statelessness
T2 - A Radical Rethinking of the Dominant Citizenism Paradigm
AU - Kochenov, Dimitry V.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2024/7/26
Y1 - 2024/7/26
N2 - A new approach to statelessness has emerged in the literature on the topic. Taking citizenism as a starting point and pioneered by Swider and Bloom, this approach offers a completely fresh paradigm for studying and understanding the statelesseness phenomenon. In the contemporary global context where citizenships are deeply unequal and racialized, the focus on rights invites us to dismiss the baseless presumption that fighting statelessness is always in the interests of the populations concerned, let alone that it is directly connected to the protection of human and citizenship rights. It is the world’s inequitable neo-feudal citizenism arrangement that is a problem, not the fact that some people do not fit neatly into the citizenism hierarchy and find themselves in a position of statelessness. Shedding light on the role of citizenship and statelessness in the world today as tools of preservation of racialized hierarchies and inequitable exclusion of most of the world’s population from rights at home and abroad, the new scholarship questions the UN High Commissioner for Refugees’s mission and actions in this domain and takes issue with the self-serving parochialism of dominant Western citizenship and statelessness literatures.
AB - A new approach to statelessness has emerged in the literature on the topic. Taking citizenism as a starting point and pioneered by Swider and Bloom, this approach offers a completely fresh paradigm for studying and understanding the statelesseness phenomenon. In the contemporary global context where citizenships are deeply unequal and racialized, the focus on rights invites us to dismiss the baseless presumption that fighting statelessness is always in the interests of the populations concerned, let alone that it is directly connected to the protection of human and citizenship rights. It is the world’s inequitable neo-feudal citizenism arrangement that is a problem, not the fact that some people do not fit neatly into the citizenism hierarchy and find themselves in a position of statelessness. Shedding light on the role of citizenship and statelessness in the world today as tools of preservation of racialized hierarchies and inequitable exclusion of most of the world’s population from rights at home and abroad, the new scholarship questions the UN High Commissioner for Refugees’s mission and actions in this domain and takes issue with the self-serving parochialism of dominant Western citizenship and statelessness literatures.
KW - citizenism
KW - citizenship
KW - nationality
KW - statelessness
KW - UN High Commissioner for Refugees
KW - UNHCR
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85206587343&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-041822-045326
DO - 10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-041822-045326
M3 - Review Article
AN - SCOPUS:85206587343
SN - 1550-3585
VL - 20
SP - 117
EP - 139
JO - Annual Review of Law and Social Science
JF - Annual Review of Law and Social Science
IS - 1
ER -