'Statelessness' is a legal status denoting lack of any nationality, a status whereby the otherwise normal link between an individual and a state is absent. The increasingly widespread problem of statelessness has profound legal, social, economic, and psychological consequences, but also gives rise to the paradox of an international community that claims universal standards for all natural persons while allowing member states to allow statelessness to occur. Now available in paperback, this book critically evaluates traditional efforts to recognize and reduce statelessness. The problem,...