Sites of Statelessness: Laws, Cities, Seas (SUNY series in Global Modernity) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1438499892 ISBN 13: 9781438499895

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2024

Synopsis

Explores various unusual sites of statelessness like sea, cities, and laws, beyond mere legal and regulatory frameworks, that determines statelessness.

Statelessness is incessantly produced in seas, cities, and law. Building around the postcolonial experiences of statelessness Sites of Statelessness examines the entanglements of citizenship policies and practices with the spread of statelessness in contemporary times, something that defies any kind of a citizen/stateless binary. These policies are significant, the background of a shift in emphasis from jus soli to jus sanguinis, the proliferation of borderland populations and nowhere people, population flows across (post)colonial border formations and boundary delimitations, and the growth of regional, formal, and informal labor markets characterized by immigrant labor economies. In this context, contributors address the distinctive dynamics of the different sites in the production of statelessness and considers the impact of these sites as critical and does not merely treat them as a backdrop. They argue that these different sites evoke different histories and repertoires and also bring different possibilities of alignment with emerging problematics.

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About the Authors

Ayşe Çağlar is Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vienna University, and a Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna.

Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury is Professor of Political Science at the Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India.

Ranabir Samaddar is Distinguished Chair Professor of Migration and Forced Migration Studies at the Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1438499892
• ISBN 13: 9781438499895
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 277
• Editor: Çağlar Ayşe, Chaudhury Sabyasachi Basu Ray, Samaddar Ranabir