And given that many of these "third party" countries offer no legal status for the people we are trafficking there, it's also in many cases forced statelessness.
September 23, 2026 at 4:22 AM
And given that many of these "third party" countries offer no legal status for the people we are trafficking there, it's also in many cases forced statelessness.
The relationship between statelessness and atrocity is a major theme in Hannah Arendt; I make a specific argument about the Holocaust in "Black Earth."
The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.
April 2, 2026 at 7:43 PM
The relationship between statelessness and atrocity is a major theme in Hannah Arendt; I make a specific argument about the Holocaust in "Black Earth."
This is a shocking number, and may rise to the level of an atrocity crime if many of these deportees have been subject to abuse or effective statelessness.
to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.
September 24, 2026 at 4:31 AM
This is a shocking number, and may rise to the level of an atrocity crime if many of these deportees have been subject to abuse or effective statelessness.
2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.
One of the 'demands' is for Abdul El-Sayed to recognize that "Jewish sovereignty in Israel is nonnegotiable.".
In other words, they're asking him to endorse the permanent subjugation of Palestinians under second class citizenship at best and forever statelessness and mass murder at worst.
In other words, they're asking him to endorse the permanent subjugation of Palestinians under second class citizenship at best and forever statelessness and mass murder at worst.
Rabbis who have criticized Abdul El-Sayed are calling on Kamala Harris to raise their concerns with AES. #MISen
www.freep.com/story/news/p...
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Rabbis ask Kamala Harris to talk to Abdul El-Sayed about their concerns
The group calling itself Nonnegotiable Michigan made the plea ahead of a campaign visit by the former VP.
www.freep.com
September 22, 2026 at 3:43 PM
One of the 'demands' is for Abdul El-Sayed to recognize that "Jewish sovereignty in Israel is nonnegotiable.".
In other words, they're asking him to endorse the permanent subjugation of Palestinians under second class citizenship at best and forever statelessness and mass murder at worst.
In other words, they're asking him to endorse the permanent subjugation of Palestinians under second class citizenship at best and forever statelessness and mass murder at worst.
Statelessness for thee (me) but not for me (him)
Eliminating birthright citizenship means giving them the power to dig into the background of anyone who opposes their regime and demand papers for dead grandparents, great grandparents, and great great grandparents.
They generally don’t mean the post-doc from France. They absolutely mean the woman who was born in Baltimore to parents who were here legally.
July 18, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Statelessness for thee (me) but not for me (him)
I do hope everyone has read Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem very carefully and therefore understands the relationship between stripping people of citizenship, statelessness and detention/disappearance.
March 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I do hope everyone has read Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem very carefully and therefore understands the relationship between stripping people of citizenship, statelessness and detention/disappearance.
Thailand’s cabinet has approved an accelerated pathway to permanent residency and citizenship for 500,000 people. Once implemented, this will be the single largest reduction of statelessness by any country worldwide. UN News
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‘Historic development’ in Thailand as it moves to end statelessness for nearly 500,000 people
In a landmark move towards ending statelessness, Thailand’s cabinet has approved an accelerated pathway to permanent residency and nationality for nearly half a million stateless people, marking one…
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November 14, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Thailand’s cabinet has approved an accelerated pathway to permanent residency and citizenship for 500,000 people. Once implemented, this will be the single largest reduction of statelessness by any country worldwide. UN News
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#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Reasonable people can disagree about the best ways to achieve Jewish safety, self-determination, or liberation.
Absolutely no one can justify the mass starvation of children and violent enforcement of statelessness upon another people.
Absolutely no one can justify the mass starvation of children and violent enforcement of statelessness upon another people.
July 25, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Reasonable people can disagree about the best ways to achieve Jewish safety, self-determination, or liberation.
Absolutely no one can justify the mass starvation of children and violent enforcement of statelessness upon another people.
Absolutely no one can justify the mass starvation of children and violent enforcement of statelessness upon another people.
Hannah Arendt’s work on statelessness seems more and more prescient.
The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.
Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".
Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.
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Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".
Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.
substack.com/redirect/169...
June 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Hannah Arendt’s work on statelessness seems more and more prescient.
Yup. It makes everyone susceptible to the threat of statelessness.
July 18, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Yup. It makes everyone susceptible to the threat of statelessness.
The only thing birthright citizenship means is that you cannot be born into statelessness as is possible in some countries
July 1, 2026 at 7:21 PM
The only thing birthright citizenship means is that you cannot be born into statelessness as is possible in some countries
Arendt was right to diagnose statelessness as one of the fundamental cruelties/problems of the nation-state world. Really bad that it’s becoming a bigger and bigger thing again.
July 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Arendt was right to diagnose statelessness as one of the fundamental cruelties/problems of the nation-state world. Really bad that it’s becoming a bigger and bigger thing again.
"State Terror: A brief guide for Americans"
Revisiting a piece I wrote in April 2025
"In the history of state terror, the escape from law into coercion takes three forms... the leader principle; the state of exception; and the zone of statelessness."
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
Revisiting a piece I wrote in April 2025
"In the history of state terror, the escape from law into coercion takes three forms... the leader principle; the state of exception; and the zone of statelessness."
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
snyder.substack.com
October 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"State Terror: A brief guide for Americans"
Revisiting a piece I wrote in April 2025
"In the history of state terror, the escape from law into coercion takes three forms... the leader principle; the state of exception; and the zone of statelessness."
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
Revisiting a piece I wrote in April 2025
"In the history of state terror, the escape from law into coercion takes three forms... the leader principle; the state of exception; and the zone of statelessness."
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
One of the UNHCR aims is to end "Statelessness". (Personal to me because my grandfather was stateless until he died, having lived in England for 60 years.)
November 25, 2023 at 5:57 PM
One of the UNHCR aims is to end "Statelessness". (Personal to me because my grandfather was stateless until he died, having lived in England for 60 years.)
On the relationship between the manufacture of statelessness and mass atrocities see my book "Black Earth"
www.thebulwark.com/p/can-trump-...
www.thebulwark.com/p/can-trump-...
Trump Is Coming for Your Citizenship
Your citizenship won’t save you any more than Congress, or the laws, or the courts do.
www.thebulwark.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
On the relationship between the manufacture of statelessness and mass atrocities see my book "Black Earth"
www.thebulwark.com/p/can-trump-...
www.thebulwark.com/p/can-trump-...
we had SO MANY good stories over the weekend at @globalvoices.org ~re-upping this one to start. I know "climate refugees" is not a new idea, but this piece, written by our friends at the Global Movement Against Statelessness, brings you the perspective of people who have experienced statelessness:
Beyond displacement: Examining the link between climate change and statelessness
New international frameworks should recognize those displaced by climate change and those at risk of statelessness, and should offer them some form of access to citizenship and safe resettlement.
globalvoices.org
July 13, 2026 at 10:38 AM
we had SO MANY good stories over the weekend at @globalvoices.org ~re-upping this one to start. I know "climate refugees" is not a new idea, but this piece, written by our friends at the Global Movement Against Statelessness, brings you the perspective of people who have experienced statelessness:
Making my way through the amicus briefs filed in support of respondents in Trump v. Barbara and more than 10 of them address the risk of statelessness in a fairly significant way. Many others at least mention it in passing. A thread on the most significant arguments re: statelessness 1/
February 27, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Making my way through the amicus briefs filed in support of respondents in Trump v. Barbara and more than 10 of them address the risk of statelessness in a fairly significant way. Many others at least mention it in passing. A thread on the most significant arguments re: statelessness 1/
I'm in an amazing call with the Global Movement Against Statelessness, being interpreted (by humans) into Arabic and Rohingya, listening to experiences of statelessness, people whose humanity is denied because they don't fit into national boundaries, or have been pushed out of them.
July 30, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I'm in an amazing call with the Global Movement Against Statelessness, being interpreted (by humans) into Arabic and Rohingya, listening to experiences of statelessness, people whose humanity is denied because they don't fit into national boundaries, or have been pushed out of them.
Great discussion of “strategic statelessness”…
The first half of my discussion with the brilliant @ebharrington.bsky.social. We talk offshores, Epstein, boiling frogs, JD Vance as head chimp, and, as she put it, “'Jackass' played as a global game among the richest and most powerful men in the world.”
Offshores, Epstein, & the Reputational Economy (Part One)
A discussion with "Capital Without Borders" author Brooke Harrington
gregolear.substack.com
February 27, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Great discussion of “strategic statelessness”…
New from FM: Asylum Aid wins High Court challenge to the statelessness family reunion rules | Djamilla Hitchins
Asylum Aid wins High Court challenge to the statelessness family reunion rules - Free Movement
Asylum Aid’s legal challenge to the lawfulness of the statelessness family reunion rules has been comprehensively upheld. The judgement was handed down by the
freemovement.org.uk
April 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM
New from FM: Asylum Aid wins High Court challenge to the statelessness family reunion rules | Djamilla Hitchins
I love and care about Palestinians because I love and care about being Jewish.
I do not want anyone to experience foreign occupation, dispossession, a lack of freedom, statelessness or mass death—and certainly not at the hands of my people.
It’s anti-Jewish to take their lives and their land.
I do not want anyone to experience foreign occupation, dispossession, a lack of freedom, statelessness or mass death—and certainly not at the hands of my people.
It’s anti-Jewish to take their lives and their land.
July 25, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I love and care about Palestinians because I love and care about being Jewish.
I do not want anyone to experience foreign occupation, dispossession, a lack of freedom, statelessness or mass death—and certainly not at the hands of my people.
It’s anti-Jewish to take their lives and their land.
I do not want anyone to experience foreign occupation, dispossession, a lack of freedom, statelessness or mass death—and certainly not at the hands of my people.
It’s anti-Jewish to take their lives and their land.
Some of our guests have been stranded for years in immigration limbo, the asylum system, or even statelessness
July 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Some of our guests have been stranded for years in immigration limbo, the asylum system, or even statelessness