Letter from the Co-Editors Marc Helbling University of Bamberg Kristy A. Belton International Studies Association Kristy A. Belton International Studies Association The main focus of this issue is the symposium on statelessness organized by Kristy. This topic allows us to pursue one of the central aims of our section, namely to bring together migration and citizenship research. While there are many research questions that are specific to these two fields, it is often difficult to understand developments in one field without investigating related aspects in the other field. “Statelessness” is an excellent example for the close connection between migration and citizenship issues: it is about people who have no citizenship, a situation that is created, not exclusively but often, after people have migrated to another country. The symposium also fulfills another aim this newsletter has been pursuing over the last years: while there is an abundance of research in our fields on North America and Western Europe, other world regions have been neglected to a large extent so far. The various contributions of the symposium cover such diverse places as the Dominican Republic, Bahrain, the Baltic States and South-East Asia. The policy piece by Bronwen Manby on biometric identities in Africa presents a topic tightly related to statelessness and covers yet another continent. It appears in the various contributions of the symposium that data availability is a recurrent issue as it is often difficult to get a detailed picture of how many people are stateless, where and for which reasons. This is of course a problem many migration and citizenship scholars know. The Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GDMAC) that was established by the UN Migration Agency (IOM) in Berlin in 2015 and that is pre- http://community.apsanet.org/migrationcitizenship/home 6