A person who is not recognised as a citizen anywhere is typically referred to as 'stateless'. Statelessness, governance, and the problem of citizenship redirects focus away from legal analyses of statelessness to uncover a more fundamental 'problem of citizenship', and interrogates how citizenship is used as a governance tool around the world.
Tendayi Bloom is a Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at the University of Birmingham
Lindsey N. Kingston is Associate Professor of International Human Rights at Webster University in Saint Louis, Missouri