Narratives of Statelessness and Political Otherness

Barzoo Eliassi is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work at Linnaeus University, Sweden. He has held previous positions as a Researcher at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University, Sweden, and at the International Migration Institute at Oxford University, UK. He is also the author of Contesting Kurdish Identities in Sweden: Quest for Belonging among Middle Eastern Youth (2013).

“Interesting in Narratives of Statelessness and Political Otherness is that Eliassi also lays the blame with the ethnocultural, authoritarian states of contemporary Middle East. This book is a study of the consequences of inter-subaltern colonialism, in other words, Arab, Turkic and Persian imperialism. … Eliassi’s book interweaves theory and empirical research on political otherness, diaspora, minority rights, nationalism, and citizenship.” (Rachel Stevens, Australian Outlook, June 8, 2022)

• Chapter 1. Theorizing Statelessness and Stateless Diasporas.- Chapter 2. The Nation-State Crafting of Majorities and Minorities.- Chapter 3. Defining, Embracing and Challenging (State)lessness.- Chapter 4. Politics of Home and ‘Statesickness’: Perils and Promises.- Chapter 5. Marked Groups and Hierarchies of Citizenship in Authoritarian and Liberal Democratic States.- Chapter 6. The Weight of Assimilation and the Confines of Resistance in Diaspora  .- Chapter 7. Critique and Dissent as a Transnational Obligation: Diasporic Appraisals of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.- Chapter 8. Seeing as the Stateless in a World of Nation-States.