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Today over 12 million people are stateless and millions more are refugees or displaced persons. Mira Siegelberg shows how the much-contested legal category of statelessness generated novel visions of political and legal authority beyond the territorial state, before ultimately empowering the sovereign territorial state as the fundamental source of protection and rights.Two world wars left millions stranded in Europe. The collapse of empires and the rise of independent states in the twentieth cen...Vis mer