Research interests
- Subject-state relationship
- Statelessness and citizenship
- Intentional noncitizenship (voluntary statelessness)
- Refusal, exit, withdrawal
Jocelyn Kane holds a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests lie at the centre of state authority, practices of recognition, and the ethics of resistance. Jocelyn’s current research is focused on voluntary statelessness in theory and practice.
Jocelyn holds an MA degree in Immigration and Settlement Studies from Toronto Metropolitan University. As a part of her studies, Jocelyn investigated the social construction of statelessness in Canadian national media from 1930-2011.
Jocelyn is also the founder of the Canadian Centre on Statelessness (CCS). CCS is Canada’s only organisation dedicated to researching statelessness in Canada and advocating for related policy and legislative change.