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The Rohingya: An Ethnography of 'Subhuman' Life

The Rohingya: An Ethnography of 'Subhuman' Life

$48.00
Author:Nasir Uddin
ISBN 13:9780199489350
Binding:Hardbound
Language:English
Year:2021
Subject:Anthropology and Sociology/Social problems Social welfare

About the Book

The Rohingya are known as the most persecuted minority population in the world. They do not belong to any state as Myanmar striped of the citizenship rendering them stateless and Bangladesh does not recognise them even as refugees. With the case of Rohingya people, the book offers a comprehensive portrait of the hidden transcript of statelessness, non-citizenship, transborder movements and refugee-hood in the legal structure of modern nation-state. It illuminates pains, sufferings, and struggle of carrying out the state of statelessness and refugee-hood at home-state and host-state across the world in general and the Rohingya people in the borderland of Bangladesh and Myanmar in particular. The book with ethnographically informed analysis critically engages with the existing scholarship on migration and refugee studies, asylum seekers and camp-people, and citizenship and human-rights issue with proposing a new theoretical perspective called <