Citizenship and genocide cards IDs, statelessness, and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar / Natalie Brinham.
| Author/creator | Brinham, Natalie |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon [UK] ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Crimes of the powerful |
| Contents | Introduction: IDs for Rohingya : 'Pathways to Citizenship' or 'Instruments of Genocide'? -- Papers, Cards, and Perilous Encounters with the State : Identity documents, oral histories and state crime research -- By-passing State Power and Neutralising State Bureaucracies in International Approaches to Statelessness -- State Power and Identification Schemes in Rakhine : From the British colonial period to Burma's independence -- IDs as Evidence of State Crime and Artefacts from the Early Decades of Independence -- Genocide and Identity Destruction in Rohingya ID Narratives -- 'Genocide Cards' : IDs, Registration, and the Phases of Rohingya Genocide -- IDs and International Approaches to Rohingya Statelessness : Towards social inclusion or identity destruction? -- Conclusion : Seeing the State and Criminality in Statelessness. |
| Abstract | "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. The promotion of state-issued IDs has long been a mainstay of international approaches to reducing and preventing statelessness. Registration and IDs are understood to assist people in accessing their right to nationality over time. Contrastingly, Rohingya testimonies and narratives often described Myanmar's use of ID cards and registration as integral to the persecution and genocide committed by the state against them. Rohingya oral histories about their documents worked on multiple levels. They were evidence of claims to Myanmar citizenship; but they were also artefacts that could plot policies and practices relating to their diminishing legal status. They were the purveyors of state ascribed categories that destroyed and imposed (rather than recorded) national religious and ethnic identities; they were a series of encounters with the state during which Rohingya resisted identity destruction; and they were the objects through which refugees could articulate their hopes and fears for the future. Rohingya narratives disrupt a simple linear understanding of documenting legal identity that marginalizes 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024031821 |
| ISBN | 9781032799254 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781032799261 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |