On the threshold of statelessness

Palestinian narratives of loss and erasure

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2147196
AutoresElena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (0000-0003-0112-6804, University College London, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume39
Fascículo2
Páginas301-321
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)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2016.1105997
OpenAlexW2205730412
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas18
Referências citadas27

This article examines how Palestinians in Europe negotiate, mobilise, and/or resist, and ultimately problematise, notions of statelessness as a concept and as a marker of identity. Centralising Palestinians' conceptualisations in this manner - including accounts which directly challenge academics' and policy-makers' definitions of the problem of, and solution to, statelessness - is particularly important given that statelessness emerges as both a condition and a label that erase the ability to speak, and be heard. The article starts by examining perceptions of statelessness as a marker of rightlessess, home(land)lessness and voicelessness. It then explores statelessness through the paradigm of the 'threshold', reflecting both on interviewees' ambiguity towards this label, status, and condition, and the extent to which even Palestinians who hold citizenship remain 'on the threshold of statelessness'. It concludes by reflecting on interviewees' rejection of a label that is imposed upon them 'from a distance' via bureaucratic processes in Europe

Aesthetics · Ambiguity · Bureaucracy · Citizenship · Erasure · Identity (music · Law and economics · Linguistics · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · Statelessness · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy