The Rohingya in South Asia

People Without a State
2. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-13551-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

The Rohingya are among the world's most persecuted people. Rendered stateless by Myanmar's 1982 Citizenship Act, they face systematic violence, discrimination, and displacement that have forced hundreds of thousands into exile across South and Southeast Asia.

This revised edition provides an expanded examination of Rohingya experiences in Bangladesh and India, analyzing conditions in overcrowded refugee camps, the perilous journeys undertaken in search of safety, and the profound human rights implications of statelessness. It critically assesses international responses to the crisis and confronts the challenges of repatriation without guarantees of citizenship or security.

An essential resource for scholars, students, and practitioners in Refugee Studies, Human Rights, South Asian Studies, and Political Science, this volume also speaks directly to policymakers, activists, and anyone seeking to understand one of the twenty-first century's most urgent humanitarian crises.

Zielgruppe

Academic and General

Autoren/Hrsg.

Basu Ray Chaudhury, Sabyasachi

Samaddar, Ranabir

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Lists of tables. List of contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction to the 2nd edition. Introduction to the 1st edition - Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury and Ranabir Samaddar 1. Stateless, Floating People: The Rohingya at Sea 2. Where do #ibelong? The Stateless Rohingya in India 3. The Stateless People: Rohingya in Hyderabad 4. The jailed Rohingya in West Bengal 5. Rohingya in Bangladesh and India and the media planet 6. Legal brief on statelessness: law in the Indian context 7. Reducing statelessness: a new call for India 8. Life is A Floating Island 9. Refugee Law, Rights and Identity. Epilogue: The Regional Dimension. Afterword. References. Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury is a Professor in the Department of Political Science, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India, and also a Member of Calcutta Research Group. He was a Visiting Fellow at the (Institute fur die Wissenschaft vom Menschen (IWM), Vienna, Austria in 2023. His areas of interest include global politics, South Asian politics, human mobilities, platform economy and sociology of labour. He has recently co-edited Sites of Statelessness: Laws, Cities, Seas (2024).

Ranabir Samaddar is currently Emeritus Professor at the Calcutta Research Group. He belongs to the critical school of thinking and is considered as one of the foremost theorists in the field of migration and forced migration studies. His writings on migration, forms of labour, urbanization, and political struggles have signalled a new turn in post-colonial thinking. Among his influential works are The Marginal Nation: Transborder Migration from Bangladesh to West Bengal (1999), Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age (2018), and written in the background of the COVID pandemic, A Pandemic and the Politics of Life (2021). Imprints of the Populist Time (2022) and Biopolitics from Below: Crisis, Conjuncture, Rupture (2025) carry forward his work on the need to reconceptualize democracy in the postcolonial context.