The dissertation analyzes the construction process of the International Regime for the Protection of Stateless Peoples in two moments: the formation (1947-1976) and institutionalization (1988-2011) of the regime. The articulation of this regime in these different international conjunctures is used to inspire reflection on the normative treatment given to statelessness in International Law. The argument put forth is that the stateless may be taken by the state as one locus to promote the reaffirmation of conceptions of political belonging based on homogeneous identities that contribute to the delimitation of spatial and ideational frontiers, cooperating to state reproduction and maintenance of International Order. Nationalism, as the ideational substrate for this homogeneous process of identity construction, and the current stage of many projects of state construction are considered responsible for the attempt of reproduction of the statist logic that marked the statelessness regime since its inception. Despite providing important guarantees to people who otherwise would not have another platform of protection, the International Regime for the Protection of the Stateless Peoples works as part of a disciplinary mechanism that controls mobility and perpetuates the national state centered model as the norm of political and social belonging.