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The Rohingya

An Ethnography of 'Subhuman' Life

Uddin, Professor Nasir (Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology, University of Chittagong)

The Rohingya

The Rohingya

An Ethnography of 'Subhuman' Life

The Rohingya

 

The book offers a comprehensive portrait of refugee-life in modern nation-state illuminating their pains, sufferings, and struggle with the case of Rohingya people. The book with ethnographically informed analysis proposes a new framework called "subhuman" life for understanding the extreme vulnerability as well as genocide, ethnocide, ethnic cleansing, and domicide.


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Beschrijving The Rohingya

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 “subhuman” life. It could be used for a better understanding of an extreme vulnerability and deep uncertainty of human life apart from the broad spectrum of genocide, ethnocide, ethnic cleansing, homicide and domicide. The idea of "subhuman life" offers a new frame of thought towards an understanding of the life in the struggle for existence and the process of extinction. The book thus offers both an appealing theoretical potential and a solid piece of ethnography regarding refugee situation, stateless people, asylum seekers, transborder movements, and camp people with the case of Rohingya.


ISBN
9780199489350
Pagina's
259
Verschenen
NUR
740
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP India

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