Acknowledgements xi colleagues’ comments on parts of chapters that I have presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions at the University of Warsaw, the ‘Migration and Human Safety’ event convened by Yale University’s Fox Fellowship, and Clarkson University’s David A. Walsh Arts and Sciences Seminar Series. Engaging with everyone involved in a range of organisations doing important work in this area, including the Hackney Migrant Project and Kalayaan, has also helped me to keep questioning my approach – and to maintain my commitment that a new way to think about noncitizenship is urgently required. Many others have given their time and insight in reading sections of the manuscript, helping me to talk through ideas, providing encouragement, or supporting in other ways. There are too many to thank everyone by name, but particular thanks go, in alphabetical order, to: Christopher Adams, Rothna Begum, Silaja Birks, Gerry Bloom, Rebecca Brown, Theodora Christou, Jessie Codner, Phillip Cole, Agnes Czajka, Vessela Daskalova, Mohamed Elfar, Helena García Alónso, Ken Bell, Mary W. Gani, Belachew Gebrewold, Gervase Hood, Sara de Jong, Mandeep Kaur, Andrew Kaye, everyone at Koffee?, Daniel Lowe, Luke McDonagh, Vinod Mishra, Mba Nmaju, Micheál Ó Floinn, Lisa Propst, Narissa Ramsundar, Jan Scrimgeour, Shifra Sharlin, David Sorkin, Daniel van Gelder, and everyone at Yumchaa Camden. I am particularly grateful to Susan Williams for her singular help, support and unfailing confidence in me and in the project. Some writers, artists and organisations have kindly allowed me to reproduce their work in this book. I thank, in alphabetical order: Ra’anan Aleixandrowicz, Associated Press, Gohar Dashti, Denis Bosnic, Elena, Khadija Farah, Granta Magazine, Mike Greenlar, ILO, Engin Isin, Lawyers for Human Rights South Africa, Lensational, Asti Maria, Kevin McElvaney, Thomas Pogge, Ramadan, Refugee Action UK, Abbie Trayler-Smith, UNESCO, WEIGO and Zakaria. Finally, I also want to thank Andrew Taylor at Routledge for his confidence in the project from the beginning, and his patience and encouragement throughout the process. He, Sophie Iddamalgoda, Hannah Riley, Fergus Paton, and their team have been fantastic to work with. There are several people from whom, while they lived, I learnt much about the meanings of citizenship and noncitizenship and about the central importance, above all, of humanity. Now their memories bring blessing and it is to them that I dedicate this book. I hope they would have supported the thinking that I present here. Natalia Blinder passed away while I was working on this project. She taught me much. The last time we met we spoke for several hours over countless cups of tea. As ever, she challenged my thinking. Then we turned up the music and she tried to teach me to dance. I showed little aptitude and we laughed a lot. I hope she would think that I have made a better job of this book than I made of the Polka. Tendayi Bloom, 5 May 2017, London