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The final chapter revises the results and the theoretical arguments of this study. It specifically discusses how statelessness is conceived, valued and experienced in a world of nation-states and why decolonization of the nation-state as a political template is needed to create more inclusive and pluralistic societies beyond permanent majorities and minorities with disparate power relations. This chapter will also focus on the questions of universality, difference, sameness and equality in the context of the nation-state. As long as the inequality and denial continue within the realms of the nation-states, few societies can achieve lasting peace, conviviality and stability, since inequality and denial are fertile ground for cultivating polarized identities in a world where certain groups establish themselves as subjects of rights and privilege at the expense of racialized and stateless groups. At the end, it is mainly by altering the political normativity of the nation-states and hierarchical citizenship regimes, that a new inclusionary political future can be envisioned and enacted beyond political mastery and subordination.
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Eliassi, B. (2021). Seeing as the Stateless in a World of Nation-States. In: Narratives of Statelessness and Political Otherness. Minorities in West Asia and North Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76698-6_8
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