The Rohingya: an ethnography of 'Subhuman' life

Abstract

<p>Based on classical ethnographic research, Nasir Uddin, a cultural anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh, has articulated the grievances, austere misery, and extreme vulnerabilities of Rohingyas, who have left homelands in Myanmar, under the compulsion of life-threatening situations, and are currently dwelling in Bangladesh as refugees. The author also engages in a debate on the body of knowledge about stateless people, non-citizens, asylum seekers, camp people, forced migrants, and refugees, who have previously been theorised using terms such as 'bare life', 'rejected people', 'non-citizens', 'statelessness', and whose 'citizenship is [the] right to have rights', and so on (p. 3).</p>