Tendayi Bloom is a lecturer in Politics and International Studies at the Open University in the UK. She is a political and legal theorist and her work focuses on the relationship between noncitizens and States. She has written on this in a number of capacities. She is currently working on projects relating to statelessness, noncitizenship, and the politics of noncitizenship.

Her recent published work has focused on the role of the private sector in constructing non-citizenship in the context of migration, decision-making in the Mediterranean region, and of a more theoretical framing of the State-noncitizen relationship.