Zainab Saleh

Political Undesirables considers the legal making and unmaking of citizenship in Iraq, focusing on the mass denaturalisation and deportation of Iraqi Jews in 1950–51 and Iraqis of Iranian origin in the early 1980s. Since the formation of the modern state of Iraq under British rule in 1921, practices of denaturalisation and expulsion of citizens have been mobilised by ruling elites...