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The Rohingya in South Asia: People Without a State book cover

2nd Edition

The Rohingya in South Asia People Without a State

Edited By Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, Ranabir Samaddar Copyright 2027
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

The Rohingya are among the world's most persecuted people. Rendered stateless by Myanmar's 1982 Citizenship Act, they face systematic violence, discrimination, and displacement that have forced hundreds of thousands into exile across South and Southeast Asia. This revised edition provides an expanded examination of Rohingya experiences in Bangladesh and India, analyzing conditions in... Read more

Introduction to the 2nd edition - Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury and Ranabir Samaddar

 

Introduction to the 1st edition - Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury and Ranabir Samaddar

 

1. Stateless, Floating People: The Rohingya at Sea

Sucharita Sengupta

 

2. Where do #ibelong? The Stateless Rohingya in India

Sahana Basavapatna

 

3. The Stateless People: Rohingya in Hyderabad

Priyanca Mathur and Kriti Chopra

 

4. The Jailed Rohingya in West Bengal

Suchismita Majumder

 

5. Rohingya in Bangladesh and India and the Media Planet

Madhura Chakraborty

 

6. Legal Brief on Statelessness: Law in the Indian context

Charlotte-Anne Malischewski

 

7. Reducing Statelessness: A New Call for India

Shuvro Prosun Sarker

 

8. Life is A Floating Island

Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury

 

9. Refugee Law, Rights and Identity

Sreetapa Charabarty

 

Epilogue: The Regional Dimension

Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury and Ranabir Samaddar

 

Afterword

Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury and Ranabir Samaddar

Biography

Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury is a Professor in the Department of Political Science, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India, and also a Member of Calcutta Research Group. He was a Visiting Fellow at the (Institute fur die Wissenschaft vom Menschen (IWM), Vienna, Austria in 2023. His areas of interest include global politics, South Asian politics, human mobilities, platform economy and sociology of labour. He has recently co-edited Sites of Statelessness: Laws, Cities, Seas (2024).

 

Ranabir Samaddar is currently Emeritus Professor at the Calcutta Research Group. He belongs to the critical school of thinking and is considered as one of the foremost theorists in the field of migration and forced migration studies. His writings on migration, forms of labour, urbanization, and political struggles have signalled a new turn in post-colonial thinking. Among his influential works are The Marginal Nation: Transborder Migration from Bangladesh to West Bengal (1999), Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age (2018), and written in the background of the COVID pandemic, A Pandemic and the Politics of Life (2021). Imprints of the Populist Time (2022) and Biopolitics from Below: Crisis, Conjuncture, Rupture (2025) carry forward his work on the need to reconceptualize democracy in the postcolonial context. 

 

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