Citizenship and Genocide Cards

IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-79926-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 235 mm x 156 mm, Gewicht: 412 g

Reihe: Crimes of the Powerful

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. This book will be valuable for scholars studying global criminology, state crime, development studies, refugee and migration studies, statelessness and nationality, citizenship studies, and genocide studies.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brinham, Natalie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Genozid und ethnische Säuberung
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: IDs for Rohingya: ‘Pathways to Citizenship’ or ‘Instruments of Genocide’? 

2. Papers, Cards, and Perilous Encounters with the State: Identity documents, oral histories and state crime research   

3. By-passing State Power and Neutralising State Bureaucracies in International Approaches to Statelessness

4. State Power and Identification Schemes in Rakhine: From the British colonial period to Burma’s independence

5. IDs as Evidence of State Crime and Artefacts from the Early Decades of Independence

6. Genocide and Identity Destruction in Rohingya ID Narratives

7. ‘Genocide Cards’: IDs, Registration, and the Phases of Rohingya Genocide        

8. IDs and International Approaches to Rohingya Statelessness: Towards social inclusion or identity destruction?     

9. Conclusion: Seeing the State and Criminality in Statelessness

Über Autor(innen)

Natalie Brinham is a researcher and author working on statelessness, ID systems, forced migration, and genocide. She also has many years of experience working in the UK and Southeast Asia in human rights, advocacy, and frontline provision for refugees and migrants. She holds a PhD in Legal Studies from Queen Mary University of London and an MA in Gender, Education and International Development from University College London.