The Rohingya : an ethnography of 'subhuman' life / Nasir Uddin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nasir Uddin (Anthropologist), author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rohingya (Burmese people)--History.

Rohingya (Burmese people).

Rohingya (Burmese people)--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

This text offers a comprehensive portrait of refugee-life in modern nation-state illuminating their pains, sufferings, and struggle with the case of Rohingya people. The work 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. The volume contributes both a theoretical potential and an ethnography of Rohingya to the spectrum of stateless people, asylum seekers, transborder movements, camp people and non-citizens.

Contents:

Introduction : the Rohingya, their textual (re)presentation, and a contextual framing

Who are the Rohingya? : Life through Roshang, Arakan, and Rakhine state

Of hurting and hosting : the Rohingyas in the place of migration

State of stateless people : the struggle for existence and the cry for survival

The (re)production of vulnerability : state in everyday life of stateless Rohingyas

The story of the 'subhuman' life : untold pains and miseries and uncertain futures

Theorizing 'subhuman' : treatment of Rohingyas as lesser than human beings

Conclusion : Looking forward.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 14, 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-909983-9

0-19-909984-7