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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300584703321

Autore

Chowdhory Nasreen

Titolo

Refugees, Citizenship and Belonging in South Asia : Contested Terrains / / by Nasreen Chowdhory

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

981-13-0197-2

978-981-13-0197-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIX, 181 p. 3 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

950

Soggetti

Citizenship—Sociological aspects

Economic policy

Asia—History

Sociology of Citizenship

Development Policy

Asian History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines forced migration of two refugees groups in South Asia. The author discusses the claims of “belonging” of refugees, and asserts that in practice “belonging” can extend beyond the state-centric understanding of membership in South Asian states. She addresses two sets of interrelated questions: what factors determine whether refugees are relocated to their home countries in South Asia, and why do some repatriated groups re-integrate more successfully than others in “post-peace” South Asian states? This book answers these questions through a study of refugees from Sri Lanka and Bangladesh who sought asylum in India and were later relocated to their countries of origin. Since postcolonial societies have a typical kind of state-formation, in South Asia’s case this has profoundly shaped questions of belonging and membership. The debate tends to focus on citizenship, making it a benchmark to demarcate inclusion and exclusion in South Asian states. In addition to qualitative analysis, this book includes narratives of Sri Lankan and Chakma refugees in post-conflict and post-peace Sri Lanka



and Bangladesh respectively, and critiques the impact of macro policies from the bottom up. .