Sites of Statelessness: Laws, Cities, Seas (Suny Global Modernity)

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Abandoned to be Stateless
	Overview of Chapters
		Part I: Law as a Site of Statelessness
		Part II: City as a Site of Statelessness
		Part III: Sea as a Site of Statelessness
		References
Part I: Law as a Site of Statelessness
	Chapter 1: Revisiting (Il)legal Sites of Statelessness in South Asia
		Introduction
		New States of South Asia
		Borders and Boundaries
		Legalizing Illegality
		Deprivation of Chakmas
		Expulsion of Rohingyas
		Postcolonial Territorialization and Exteriority
		Territoriality and Sovereignty
		The Great Disconnect
		Decolonializing Statelessness
		Universal or Pluriversal?
		Liminality of the Stateless
		In Lieu of Answers
		Note
		References
	Chapter 2: The Production of Statelessness in Europe
		Understand a European Human Rights Dimension to Citizenship Deprivation
			Loyalty and Citizenship
			Creating Stranded Migrants
		Statelessness and the British State — Examining the Case of Shamima Begum
			Loyalty and the Determination of National Security Needs
			Stranded Migrant
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	Chapter 3: The Banality of Statelessness and the Impossibility of Counting the Dispossessed
		Introduction
		Narrating the Future? Disciplinary Illusions
		The Canvas
		Half-Statelessness?
		Statelessness as the Residual Truth of the Postcolonial Condition
		Statelessness as a Reflection in the Labyrinth of Membership
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part II: City as a Site of Statelessness
	Chapter 4: The Conundrum of Trafficking and Statelessness in West Bengal
		Where We Stand
		The Media Response
		Voices: The Young Adults
		Voices: The Adult Women
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 5: Can Undesirables Inhabit the World? From Camps to Instant Cities
		Introduction
		Texaco, Liberdade and l’En-ville (the In-City)
		Making a Community, Making a City
		Strange Futuristic Settlements
		Instant Cities
		“The Very Spirit of the City”
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 6: Stateless in Informal Settlements
		Introduction
		The Informal Settlement of Korail
		Governing Informal Settlements
		Micropolitics
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 7: Statelessness and Camp Settlements: The Curious Case of South Asia
		Introduction
		The Curious Case of Camp Settlements in South Asia
		Sri Lankan Tamils, Rohingyas, and Reconstitution of Statelessness in Camp Settlements
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
Part III: Sea as a Site of Statelessness
	Chapter 8: The Tragic Journey of Komagata Maru: Empire, Immigrants, and Anxiety
		Introduction
		Migration, Racist Response, and Radicalization
		Control by Empire
		Militant Nationalism in India
		The Global Context
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 9: Subjects at Sea: Jahaji Relationships and Their Discontents
		Postscript
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 10: Governing Migrant Mobilities in the Aegean Sea: From Moral Rhetoric to Blatant Use of Violence
		Spatial and Judicial Configuration of the Aegean Sea
		A Trend toward Further Centralized and Militarized Monitoring
		Pushbacks Upgraded: Floating Carceral Spaces as a Novel Infrastructure
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 11: Sea, Refugees, and Stateless Migrants on the Bay: The Rohingya
		Prelude: A Short Vignette
		Introduction to the Problematic of Statelessness in the Sea
		Statelessness and the Importance of the State
		Statelessness and Refugeehood
		Is the State Important in Civilian Lives? What Is the Rationality of a “Citizenship” Status?
		Significance of the Bay of Bengal and Statelessness at Sea
		SAR: Search and Rescue
		Rohingyas from the Camps in Bangladesh
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 12: Logistics of Maritime Capitalism: Flags of Convenience and the Statelessness at Sea
		The Logistics of FOC and Global Capitalism
		Legislation and the Formation of “Lawlessness”: The Case of Taiwan’s FOC Fishing Vessel and Fishermen’s Labor Rights
		The Formation of “Lawlessness” of Fishermen’s Labor Rights
		Recruitment Practices in Indonesia: A Complex Web Full of Fraud and Deceit
		New Nomos of the Earth and the Neoliberal Void of Slavery Production
		Notes
		References
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index