New open access book:
Citizenship and Genocide Cards: IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar (Routledge, Oct. 2024) [open access]
- "This book draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmar’s genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to legal identities and statelessness. By centring the narratives of survivors of state crimes, collected in the aftermath of the 2017 genocidal violence, this book examines the multiple uses of state-issued ID cards and registration documents in producing statelessness and facilitating genocide. In doing so, it challenges some of the international solutions put forward to resolve statelessness. Rohingya narratives disrupt a simple linear understanding of documenting legal identity that marginalises experiences of these processes. The richly layered accounts of the effects of citizenship laws and registration processes on the lives of Rohingya problematise the ways in which international actors have endorsed state ID schemes and by-passed state-led persecution of the group."
Journal articles:
"Building paper bridges: adapting citizenship and immigration regimes to international displacement," Comparative Migration Studies, 12:47 (Oct. 2024) [open access]
- Focuses on Venezuelans in Colombia.
"Disaggregating citizenship: Tibetan refugees navigating identity, belonging, and exclusionary state policies in India," PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Early View, 11 Nov. 2024 [open access]
"'A knife with two sides': naturalization and the ambivalent value of citizenship for Syrians in Turkey," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 10 Nov. 2024 [open access]
Multimedia:
Stories of Statelessness: An Auto-Ethnographical Account (Waseda University Podcasts, Nov. 2024) [Part 1] [Part 2]
- Focuses on statelessness in Japan.
Resource:
My name, my country, my rights: Legal identity, nationality and statelessness in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region (Norwegian Refugee Council, Oct. 2024) [access]
Related post: