Monthly Archives: January 2023

Unwanted citizenship Part 3 – Statehood, interrupted: passportisation as a tool of occupation

Passportisation Ukraine

In the last two Torn Identity blogs I looked at citizenship and statelessness through the prism of occupation, with Western Sahara as a case study.  Recent events in Ukraine, and the earlier occupation of the Crimea and Donbas regions, demonstrate that the use of citizenship as a tool of occupation, through what has been called ‘passportisation’, remains a live issue …