EDITORIAL MICHELLE FOSTER * AND LAURA VAN WAAS † It is with great pleasure and pride that we introduce the inaugural volume of the Statelessness and Citizenship Review (‘the Review’), celebrating a new milestone in the evolution of statelessness studies. 1 Over the past decade, there has been an exponential increase in scholarly attention and diversity of research projects focused on statelessness. With it, the volume of articles on the issue has surged, securing a place among the other literature in a wide array of existing journals that touch on related issues — not only international law and human rights, but also migration, refugee, gender and citizenship studies, to name a few. Our view, which was happily shared by the esteemed scholars who eagerly agreed to join the Review’s Editorial Board and the entire Editorial Team, is that the time has nevertheless come for a dedicated journal on statelessness and citizenship issues. In the first place, this is because the academic world has shown an ever-growing appetite to come together, across disciplinary divides, to engage in what David Baluarte describes in his piece for the Symposium in this issue as ‘our collective project’. This is evidenced, among others, by the high level of interest drawn by the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (‘ISI’) working paper series that ran for three years (a total of five editions between 2015–17) and helped to test the waters for a dedicated publication; the establishment in 2017 of the International Network of Statelessness Scholars — an online community for sharing research updates, questions and ideas; the convening of the first ever global PhD workshop on statelessness in 2018 which prompted the launch of the Global PhDs on Statelessness network now hosted on the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness’ website; and the large number of contributions to the 2019 ISI World Conference on Statelessness in The Hague. Today’s statelessness scholars want not only to debate the issues that they are investigating within a particular discipline (eg political science) or as situated in an established field (eg migration studies), they are very deliberately seeking out avenues to engage in cross-cutting conversations * † 1 Michelle Foster is Professor and Director of the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at Melbourne Law School. Dr Laura van Waas is a founder and Co-Director of the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, as well as an Assistant Professor at Tilburg Law School in The Netherlands. Scholars have begun to articulate the need for ‘a shift in the vernacular, from statelessness as a subject entrenched in legal studies, to statelessness as a field open to permeation: Statelessness Studies’. Deirdre Brennan, ‘Statelessness and the Feminist Toolbox: Another Man-Made Problem with a Feminist Solution?’ (2019) 24(2) Tilburg Law Review 170, 171.