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 an Associate Professor 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