Constitutions, Citizenship and the Shadow of Statelessness its own conceptual and empirical limits. 47 While there is certainly a healthy dose of realism in both these observations, for those who are stateless, what constitutional citizenship and citizenship more broadly do at least offer is a chance to emerge from the shadows. Pursuit of more inclusive constitutions, laws and citizenship practices that enable those who are stateless to belong to ‘the people in question’ is therefore an important goal. Shaw’s book offers much food for thought for such endeavours. 47 Johanna Hase, ‘The Constitutional Citizen in Narratives of Peoplehood’ (2020) 2(2) Statelessness & Citizenship Review 372, 375. 383

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