Sites of Statelessness

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.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Abandoned to be Stateless
Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, Ayşe Çağlar, 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 Karadağ

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