Statelessness and citizenship : camps and the creation of political space / Victoria Redclift.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Redclift, Victoria, author.

Series:

Routledge explorations in development studies ; 5.

Routledge explorations in development studies

Routledge explorations in development studies ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--Bangladesh.

Refugees.

Stateless persons--Bangladesh.

Stateless persons.

Citizenship--Bangladesh.

Citizenship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This book challenges current views of what it means to be a citizen by focusing on displacement and experiences of space as a political concept. Developing the concept of 'political space', the author analyses how historical processes shape spatial arrangements, informing the identities and political subjectivity available to people. Using Bangladesh as a case study for camp and non-camp based displacement, the book argues that concepts of citizenship are temporally, socially and spatially produced and that therefore crude binary oppositions of statelessness and citizenship are no longer relevant. The book's findings are of relevance to wider problems of displacement, citizenship and ethnic relations worldwide"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Spatial formations of exclusion

3. The socio-spatial contours of community

4. The crafting of citizenship : property, territory and the post-colonial state

5. The 'social field of citizenship' and the language of rights

6. Discourses of 'integration' : capital, movement and 'modernity'

7. Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed July 13, 2013).

ISBN:

1-136-22031-3

1-138-19235-X

0-203-09687-8

1-136-22032-1

9780203096871

OCLC:

852758082