“He Cannot Marry Her”: Excluding The Living And Including The Dead In South Sudanese Citizenship In Sudan

Using qualitative interviews and observations of Nuer chiefs’ courts to examine reforms to marriage laws within a South Sudanese refugee camp in Sudan, this article argues that chiefs’ courts contested humanitarian assumptions about citizenship by re-emphasising kinship as the primary basis for political communities. In doing so, the notion of citizenship shifted to become trans-territory and no bounded by any one nation state.