Statelessness as a permanent state: challenges to the human security paradigm
A apatricidade como estado permanente: desafios ao paradigma de segurança humana
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statelessness, state criminality, forced migration studies, Middle Eastern states, citizenshipResumo
Statelessness is a long-overlooked and yet pervasive phenomenon that has shaped the post-independence history of states across the Global South. As a legal concept, it describes the absence of a recognized link between an individual and a legal entity authorized to grant nationality and citizenship. This paper examines the historical trajectory of the creation of “stateless peoples” to ascertain national boundaries and the transfer of wealth and possessions from targeted ethno-religious groups to others in select postcolonial/post-imperial states. It asserts that the current statelessness paradigm has ahistorical aspects and
overlooks the long tradition of ethnic cleansing in many parts of the Global South. It also argues that the creation of a national citizenry that befits a dominant political and economic project of governance and post-independence sovereignty often requires the normalization of statelessness as an interim solution.
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