Description:
Statelessness often results from discriminatory policies or legal gaps, while citizenship revocation is typically used as a counterterrorism measure. Both processes strip individuals - particularly from minoritized groups - of legal status and access to essential social services, leaving them vulnerable to exclusion, exploitation, and human rights abuses.
With contributions from scholars in political science, international law, and sociology, this unique collection presents case studies of policies that reinforce statelessness; it connects legal doctrines with real-world impacts and critically balances the tensions between security imperatives and human dignity. Statelessness and Citizenship Revocation in Europe calls for policy changes that position citizenship as an essential human right. Offering both rigorous multidisciplinary academic analysis and practical recommendations to address statelessness in contemporary Europe, this book is an essential resource for scholars, policymakers, and advocates.
Review Quotes:
"Citizenship revocation is back with a vengeance across Europe. This volume exposes how legal exclusion is being normalised and why this has implications beyond those who are denationalised. The contributions are well-informed, and their findings are deeply troubling."
Maarten Vink, Chair in Citizenship Studies, European University Institute
"Over the past two decades, the stripping of citizenship from individuals associated with terrorism has emerged as an issue of immense yet often underappreciated importance for liberal democratic states. This panoptic, scholarly and highly original volume marks a major advance in our understanding of its nature and implications in Europe."
Matthew J. Gibney, Elizabeth Colson Professor of Politics and Forced Migration, Oxford University
"A chorus of leading authors has contributed important texts to this masterpiece of a book on a deeply disturbing topic that has long deserved more in-depth examination. For those who love the topic as I do, this will be a true page-turner, blending masterful engagement with meticulous attention to detail. Chapeau!"
Prof. Dimitry V. Kochenov, Central European University, Budapest and Vienna