"In her 1951 landmark study, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt characterized statelessness as "the newest mass phenomenon in contemporary history," one which has much to do with explaining the book's titular subject. Roughly a century after the post-World War I period to which Arendt was referring, mass migration and displacement are again leading to ominous political developments. The Trump administration's recent actions on immigration provide a clear case in point."
"Since Trump retook office in January, we've witnessed the aggressive deployment and expansion of an immigration enforcement apparatus empowered to deport non-citizens without due process, arrest them for speech acts, and confine them in a mushrooming system of detention facilities and internment camps. I want to consider these developments in light of four Arendtian theses drawn from her freshly resonant analysis of "the refugee problem" in Origins, Chapter 9."
Statelessness functions as a mass phenomenon that undermines basic political membership and rights. A century after post-World War I displacements, contemporary mass migration and displacement are producing similar ominous political developments. Recent administrative actions have expanded an immigration enforcement apparatus empowered to deport non-citizens without due process, arrest them for speech acts, and confine them in growing detention and internment facilities. The term "stateless" can be applied broadly to non-citizens whose standing has become precarious, encompassing refugees, the persecuted, and the displaced. Developments in human rights protections have not eliminated the relevance of statelessness analysis to current migrant struggles.
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