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Statelessness – the condition of holding no nationality and therefore being without the protection of a state – has been ‘rediscovered’ by academics, policy-makers, and practitioners since the 2000s (Van Waas 2008; Edwards and Van Waas 2014). In part, this is related to the 50th anniversary of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and the 60th anniversary of the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons in 2011 and 2014 respectively. Advocacy campaigns and policy reports related to these anniversaries – including numerous Mapping Statelessness reports, the 2014 First Global Forum on Statelessness, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ 2014 I Belong campaign – have highlighted the extent to which statelessness is effectively synonymous with individual and collective vulnerability to marginalization and human rights abuses, assertingthat there is an …