Rooted displacement

The Paradox of Belonging Among Stateless People

Bibliographic Data

ID4524922
AuthorsKristy A Belton (University of Dayton, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume19
Issue8
Pages907-921
Publication date2015-11-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13621025.2015.1110284
OpenAlexW2259295252
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited35

Stateless people are noncitizens everywhere. Yet, unlike many noncitizens, they are not border crossers. Despite the majority’s physical rootedness in the countries of their birth, the stateless are nonetheless forcibly displaced. Their peculiar form of noncitizenship displaces them in situ as they lack the right to choose to belong to the specific communities within which they were born and raised. Using The Bahamas and the Dominican Republic as case studies, this article illustrates how the stateless are either forcibly cast into liminality or made to take on the nationality of a country with which they do not identify when the State can no longer tolerate their noncitizen status

Citizenship · Deportation · Genealogy · Immigration · Liminality · Nationality · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Stateless protocol · Statelessness · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics

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