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<h1>Statelessness</h1>
<h2>A Modern History</h2>
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<h3><a
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<p>Publication Date: 10/06/2020</p>
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<p class="keynote"><b>The story of how a much-contested legal
category—statelessness—transformed the international legal
order and redefined the relationship between states and their
citizens.</b></p>
<p>Two world wars left millions stranded in Europe. The collapse
of empires and the rise of independent states in the twentieth
century produced an unprecedented number of people without
national belonging and with nowhere to go. <b>Mira Siegelberg</b>’s
innovative history weaves together ideas about law and politics,
rights and citizenship, with the intimate plight of stateless
persons, to explore how and why the problem of statelessness
compelled a new understanding of the international order in the
twentieth century and beyond.</p>
<p>In the years following the First World War, the legal category
of statelessness generated novel visions of cosmopolitan
political and legal organization and challenged efforts to limit
the boundaries of national membership and international
authority. Yet, as Siegelberg shows, the emergence of mass
statelessness ultimately gave rise to the rights regime created
after World War II, which empowered the territorial state as the
fundamental source of protection and rights, against alternative
political configurations.</p>
<p>Today we live with the results: more than twelve million people
are stateless and millions more belong to categories of recent
invention, including refugees and asylum seekers. By uncovering
the ideological origins of the international agreements that
define categories of citizenship and non-citizenship, <i>Statelessness</i>
better equips us to confront current dilemmas of political
organization and authority at the global level.</p>
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