Sites of Statelessness
Laws, Cities, Seas
Published on 2. May 2025
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Paperback/Softback
277 pages
978-1-4384-9988-8 (ISBN)
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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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
"As opposed to the traditional state-centered and legalistic conceptualization of statelessness the core argument of this volume opens a series of novel analytical trajectories. It fosters an examination of the conditions of de facto statelessness, thus blurring distinctions between citizen and stateless persons. To the same effect, it shifts the analysis towards a concern with precarity and abandonment. Each chapter helps us (re)think 'familiar' debates-such as those on logistics, urban spaces, migration across the Mediterranean, and others-through this reframed concept of statelessness, broadening the significance of the volume's contribution beyond the specific realm in which it emerges. The most significant aspect of this volume is not so much that it 'contributes to the field,' but rather that it attempts to create one." - Paolo Novak, SOAS University of LondonMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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5 Halftones, black and white
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
456 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4384-9988-8 (9781438499888)
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Ayse Çaglar | Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury | Ranabir Samaddar
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Laws, Cities, Seas
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Ayse Caglar 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.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Abandoned to be Stateless
Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, Ayse Caglar, and Ranabir Samaddar
Part I: Law as a Site of Statelessness
1. Revisiting (Il)legal Sites of Statelessness in South Asia
Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury
2. The Production of Statelessness in Europe
Elspeth Guild and Sandra Mantu
3. The Banality of Statelessness and the Impossibility of Counting the Dispossessed
Nergis Canefe
Part II: City as a Site of Statelessness
4. The Conundrum of Trafficking and Statelessness in West Bengal
Paula Banerjee and Sangbida Lahiri
5. Can Undesirables Inhabit the World? From Camps to Instant Cities
Michel Agier (translated by Helen Morrison)
6. Stateless in Informal Settlements
Efadul Huq and Faranak Miraftab
7. Statelessness and Camp Settlements: The Curious Case of South Asia
Nasreen Chowdhory and Shamna Thacham Poyil
Part III: Sea as a Site of Statelessness
8. The Tragic Journey of Komagata Maru: Empire, Immigrants, and Anxiety
Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty
9. Subjects at Sea: Jahaji Relationships and Their Discontents
Samata Biswas
10. Governing Migrant Mobilities in the Aegean Sea: From Moral Rhetoric to Blatant Use of Violence
Sibel Karadag
11. Sea, Refugees, and Stateless Migrants on the Bay: The Rohingya
Sucharita Sengupta
12. Logistics of Maritime Capitalism: Flags of Convenience and the Statelessness at Sea
Joyce C. H. Liu, Yu-Fan Chiu, and Jonathan S. Parhusip
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
Introduction: Abandoned to be Stateless
Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, Ayse Caglar, and Ranabir Samaddar
Part I: Law as a Site of Statelessness
1. Revisiting (Il)legal Sites of Statelessness in South Asia
Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury
2. The Production of Statelessness in Europe
Elspeth Guild and Sandra Mantu
3. The Banality of Statelessness and the Impossibility of Counting the Dispossessed
Nergis Canefe
Part II: City as a Site of Statelessness
4. The Conundrum of Trafficking and Statelessness in West Bengal
Paula Banerjee and Sangbida Lahiri
5. Can Undesirables Inhabit the World? From Camps to Instant Cities
Michel Agier (translated by Helen Morrison)
6. Stateless in Informal Settlements
Efadul Huq and Faranak Miraftab
7. Statelessness and Camp Settlements: The Curious Case of South Asia
Nasreen Chowdhory and Shamna Thacham Poyil
Part III: Sea as a Site of Statelessness
8. The Tragic Journey of Komagata Maru: Empire, Immigrants, and Anxiety
Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty
9. Subjects at Sea: Jahaji Relationships and Their Discontents
Samata Biswas
10. Governing Migrant Mobilities in the Aegean Sea: From Moral Rhetoric to Blatant Use of Violence
Sibel Karadag
11. Sea, Refugees, and Stateless Migrants on the Bay: The Rohingya
Sucharita Sengupta
12. Logistics of Maritime Capitalism: Flags of Convenience and the Statelessness at Sea
Joyce C. H. Liu, Yu-Fan Chiu, and Jonathan S. Parhusip
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index