2019
Statelessness & Citizenship Review
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Figure 4: Administrative Centre in Kidal.
Figure 5: Graffiti in Kidal.
In contrast to the work of Shibli and Ag Assarid sewing the existence of their
‘home’ into European cultural libraries, Swaitat seeks to delocalise our
understanding of home to show that it must not be tied to a state. Tendayi Bloom
interestingly underlines how, in the discourse around statelessness, citizenship of
a recognised state is constructed as the sole allocator of personhood and political
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