Everyday statelessness in Italy

Status, Rights, and Camps

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2147194
AutoresN Sigona (0000-0001-7882-1851)
Ano2016
Volume39
Fascículo2
Páginas263-279
Data de publicação2016-01-26
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2016.1105995
OpenAlexW2202687657
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas31
Referências citadas50

This article is an invitation to reflect sociologically on statelessness, to date mostly absent from an otherwise burgeoning sociological debate on citizenship, rights, and legal status. Millions of stateless people worldwide confirm the need for a more nuanced understanding of contemporary forms of membership attentive to the interplay of different rights regimes. While the article characterizes the Roma as the undeserving stateless, so alien to the dominant imagination of citizenship as to be even denied access to the procedure for status recognition, it also argues that the experience of Roma families who have lived for years in Italy in absence of any formal citizenship complicates Hannah Arendt's insightful characterization of stateless people as rightless. The lack of any citizenship does not make the Roma bare life, it reveals instead political subjectivity as an embodied and emplaced process, where subjects actively negotiate their position in the world and vis-à-vis the state

Citizenship · Epistemology · Negotiation · Political science · Political subjectivity · Politics · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Stateless protocol · Statelessness · Subjectivity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy · Romani and Gypsy Studies · Turkey's Politics and Society