Statelessness is incessantly produced in seas, cities, and law. Building around the postcolonial experiences of statelessness, Sites of Statelessness examines the entanglements of citizenship policies and practices with the spread of statelessness in contemporary times, something that defies any kind of a 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, contributors address 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. They argue that these different sites evoke different histories and repertoires and also bring different possibilities of alignment with emerging problematics.
This book presentation Sites of Statelessness. Laws, Cities, Seas (SUNY Press, 2024) will be moderated by Ayşe Çağlar, Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Vienna University and a Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna. The book will be discussed with:
Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury is a Professor of Political Science at the Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India.
Yuri Kazepov is a Professor of Urban Sociology at the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences (University of Vienna) and Principal Investigator and Speaker of the research platform The Challenges of Urban Futures.
Paolo Novak is a Senior Lecturer in Development Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies (SOAS, University of London).
Ranabir Samaddar is Distinguished Chair Professor of Migration and Forced Migration Studies at the Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India.
