Reflection on the Emergence of Critical Statelessness Studies (CSS) : Recognising the Debt To, and Divergence From, Critical Citizenship Studies (CCS)

In this blog entry, Thomas McGee, PhD candidate at the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at the University of Melbourne, reflects on the emerging body of critical statelessness scholarship, and considers its relation to the more established field of Critical Citizenship Studies (CCS). He argues that critical perspectives on statelessness can benefit from the emphasis on claim-making and performative identity construction advanced by CCS, but that there remains a need to consider the unique dimensions of stateless experiences