Uddin

The Rohingya

An Ethnography of 'Subhuman' Life

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book offers a comprehensive portrait of refugee-life in modern nation-state illuminating their pains, sufferings, and struggle with the case of Rohingya people. The book 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 book 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 259
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 150mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780199489350
• ISBN-10: 0199489351
• Artikelnr.: 60321783

Autorenporträt

The author is a professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Chittagong. He is also the visiting Research Felow at the Department of Refugee Studies, University of Oxford, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

* Content
* Acknowledgment
* Glossary
* Abbreviation
* List of tables
* List of photographs
* Chapter-one
* Introduction: The Rohingya, their Textual (Re) presentation, and A
Contextual Framing
* Chapter-Two
* Who are the Rohingyas? Life through Roshang, Arakan and Rakhine state
* Chapter-Three
* Of Hurting and Hosting: The Rohingyas in the Place of Migration
* Chapter-Four
* State of Stateless People: The struggle for Existence and the Cry for
Survival
* Chapter-Five
* The (Re) production of Vulnerability: State in Everyday life of
Stateless Rohingyas
* Chapter-Six
* The Story of the 'Subhuman' Life: Untold Pains and Miseries, and
Uncertain Futures
* Chapter-Seven
* Theorising 'Subhuman': Treatments of Rohingyas as if lesser than
human being
* Chapter-Eight
* Conclusion: Looking forward
* Bibliography
* Appendix
* Index