{"id":4690,"date":"2017-02-09T10:33:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T15:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/?p=4690"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:15:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:15:04","slug":"daiva-stasiulis-new-article-extraordinary-statelessness-deepan-budlakoti-erosion-canadian-citizenship-citizenship-deprivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/2017\/daiva-stasiulis-new-article-extraordinary-statelessness-deepan-budlakoti-erosion-canadian-citizenship-citizenship-deprivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Daiva Stasiulis&#8217; new article out: &#8220;The Extraordinary Statelessness of Deepan Budlakoti: The Erosion of Canadian Citizenship Through Citizenship Deprivation&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>ABSTRACT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the larger trend towards \u201csecuritization\u201d of citizenship,<br>\ncitizenship deprivation in Canada is becoming increasingly normalized, resulting in<br>\nsome cases in statelessness. In this article, I pursue a sociology of statelessness by<br>\nexamining its localized production and connections to a broader network of social<br>\nand material relations. I do this through a case study of Canadian-born Deepan<br>\nBudlakoti, who at age 22 was informed that he was in fact not Canadian, and lacking<br>\nany other citizenship, was rendered stateless. Actor-Network Theory is employed to<br>\ntrace how it is that legal documental and heterogeneous networks of humans and<br>\nthings (e.g., a \u201clegal technicality\u201d) have been enrolled to produce a legal decision<br>\ndeclaring that Budlakoti, despite his Canadian birth certificate and passports, was<br>\nnever a Canadian citizen. Yet because he has not exhausted all avenues to acquisition<br>\nof some citizenship (e.g., in India or Canada), he also has failed to secure recognition<br>\nof his statelessness. A particular innovation in this analysis is the exploration of the<br>\nexemption in the Canadian Citizenship Act from jus soli citizenship for children born<br>\nto foreign diplomatic staff. Networks of immigration tribunal and court judgements,<br>\nand documents treated as evidence have connected and translated into establishing<br>\nBudlakoti\u2019s fit with this exemption, despite countervailing evidence and a lifetime of<br>\ndocumented and state-assisted reproduction of his Canadianness. While robbed of his<br>\nlegal and social identity, and suffering the egregious consequences of statelessness,<br>\nBudlakoti continues to campaign for restoration of his right to have rights within his<br>\ncountry of birth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/Stasiulis-on-Statelessness.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read it here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABSTRACT As part of the larger trend towards \u201csecuritization\u201d of citizenship, citizenship deprivation in Canada is becoming increasingly normalized, resulting in some cases in statelessness. In this article, I pursue a sociology of statelessness by examining its localized production and connections to a broader network of social and material relations. 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