1. Statelessness in Asia: causes, conditions, and challenges in context Michelle Foster, Jaclyn Neo and Christoph Sperfeldt; Part I. Asia and the Phenomenon of Statelessness: 2. Stateless in South Asia: a legal history of challenges to immigration, nationality, and citizenship regimes in Sri Lanka Kalyani Ramnath; 3. Discrimination and childhood statelessness in Southeast Asia Rodziana Mohamed Razali; 4. Hidden statelessness dimensions of state succession in Central Asia: transit to a solution for stateless trans-border wives and children Aziz Ismatov; 5. Conflict and statelessness: a case study of descendants of kuomintang secret army in Thailand Sanzhuan Guo; Part II. Statelessness and Intersecting Vulnerabilities: 6.

Learning to be stateless: life stages and childhood statelessness in Northern Thailand Janepicha Cheva-Isarakul; 7. Gender, nationality and statelessness: marriage migration to East Asia Susan Kneebone; 8. Doubtful citizens: irregularization and precarious citizenship in contemporary India Mohsin Alam Bhat; 9. Statelessness and heritagisation in Southeast Asia: cultural tourism, festivals and the marginalisation of transborder mobile maritime communities Greg Accaioli, Helen Brunt and Julian Clifton; Part III. Challenges and Prospects for Change: 10. Stranded in Limbo: (De Facto) denationalisation and statelessness of Indonesian Foreign terrorist fighters Matthew Seet; 11. Statelessness in Myanmar: the Rohingya moment after the 2021 coup Nyi Nyi Kyaw; 12. Addressing statelessness through the human rights and development frameworks: reforming or reinforcing the status quo? Amal de Chickera and Rehana Mohammad; 13.

Persuading to ratify: a calculus of the ratification of the statelessness convention in Asia Francis Tom Temprosa; Index.