Sites of Statelessness - Laws, Cities, Seas

Statelessness is incessantly produced in seas, cities, and law. Building around the postcolonial experiences of this statelessness, Sites of Statelessness: Laws, Cities, Seas (SUNY Press, 2024), edited by Ayşe Çağlar, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, and Ranabir Samaddar, examines the entanglements of citizenship policies and practices with the spread of statelessness in contemporary times, something that defies any kind of citizen/stateless binary. These policies are significant, the background of a shift in emphasis from jus soli to jus sanguinis, the proliferation of borderland populations and nowhere people, population flows across (post)colonial border formations and boundary delimitations, and the growth of regional, formal, and informal labor markets characterized by immigrant labor economies.
In this context, this book addresses the distinctive dynamics of the different sites in the production of statelessness and considers the impact of these sites as critical, and does not merely treat them as a backdrop. The contributors argue that these different sites evoke different histories and repertoires and also bring different possibilities of alignment with emerging problematics.

The co-editors of the Sites of Statelessness: Laws, Cities, Seas (SUNY Press, 2024), Ayşe Çağlar, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, and Ranabir Samaddar, will discuss their book in conversation with Paolo Novak and Yuri Kazepov. The event will be moderated by Ayşe Çağlar.