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Statelessness

Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, 2019
Mira L. Siegelberg
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The National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India and the potential for statelessness in situ: a cautionary tale from Assam

Contemporary South Asia, 2022
The threat of statelessness has the potential to be realized anew in India with the announcement of the impending National Register of Citizens (NRC). It has propelled this populous democracy once again into controversy.
A. Hari, S. Nagpal
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Treading the border of (il)legality: statelessness, “amphibian life,” and the Rohingya “boat people” of Asia

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2022
In Myanmar, the state and the Buddhist-majority civil society have long been hostile to the people known as the Rohingya. The Muslim Rohingya have lived in Rakhine state for centuries, but the Myanmar government, labelling them “illegal Bengali migrants,”
Arnab Roy Chowdhury, Ahmed Abid
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Disciplining Statelessness: Fragmentary Outcomes of the Tibetan Rehabilitation Policy in India

Asian Studies Review, 2021
Tibetan settlements in India house the largest population of Tibetan exiles and are crucial repositories of Tibetan culture and nationalism in the political struggle for Tibet. The settlements privilege the moral narrative of statelessness as an integral
M. Balasubramaniam, Sonika Gupta
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Theorizing Statelessness and Stateless Diasporas

2021
This introductory chapter orients the book toward scholarship on the importance of studying statelessness from sociological, political theory and legal perspectives. It does so by primarily discussing and assessing the work of Hannah Arendt with regard to her seminal conceptualization of statelessness.
openaire   +1 more source

Theorizing half-statelessness: a case study of the Nation-State Law in Israel

, 2020
In 2018, the state of Israeli citizenship completed a long-anticipated transformation. The passage of the Nation-State Law represented a formal and substantial reordering of the Israeli political sphere and the long-held contention that it prioritized ...
Amal Jamal, Anna Kensicki
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Territorial claims, unclaimed people: the postcolonial geopolitics of statelessness in Sabah, Malaysia

Ethnic and Racial Studies
This article connects the contemporary phenomenon of statelessness among populations of Filipino descent in Sabah, Malaysia, to historical geopolitical contestations over territory, sovereignty, and nationhood in the region.
Amanda R. Cheong, Nur Cameliah Binti Thomas, M. A. K. Baltazar   +2 more
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The necropolitics of statelessness: coloniality, citizenship, and disposable lives

Citizenship Studies
This article critically interrogates the unequal structures of life-saving inclusion and life-shortening exclusion that underpin modern citizenship regimes.
Fabio Santos
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Statelessness: A Radical Rethinking of the Dominant Citizenism Paradigm

Annual Review of Law and Social Science
A new approach to statelessness has emerged in the literature on the topic. Taking citizenism as a starting point and pioneered by Swider and Bloom, this approach offers a completely fresh paradigm for studying and understanding the statelesseness ...
D. Kochenov
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Exclusion and persecution: The Rohingya crisis through the lens of nationalism, statelessness, and violence

World Affairs
The brutal military crackdown in Myanmar's Rakhine state caused more than 1 million Rohingya refugees to flee to Bangladesh. By analyzing the tripartite relationship between nationalism, violence, and statelessness, this commentary examines how Myanmar's
R. D. Kamal, Z. A. Kaiser, Kad Mariano
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