Statelessness: On Almost Not Existing
Tony C. Brown, "Statelessness: On Almost Not Existing"
English | ISBN: 1517912423 | 2022 | 329 pages | PDF | 16 MB
English | ISBN: 1517912423 | 2022 | 329 pages | PDF | 16 MB
A pathbreaking new genealogy of statelessness
Just as the modern state and the citizenship associated with it are commonly thought of as a European invention, so too is citizenship’s negation in the form of twentieth-century diaspora and statelessness. Statelessness sets forth a new genealogy, suggesting that Europe first encountered mass statelessness neither inside its own borders nor during the twentieth century, as Hannah Arendt so influentially claimed, but outside of itself—in the New World, several hundred years earlier.
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