Showing posts with label Paperwork. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paperwork. Show all posts

Monday, May 6, 2019

Weaponising Paperwork: Rohingya Belonging and Statelessness

The Daily Star
May 06, 2019





An1862 map showing British possessions of India and Burma.

Crisis as Narrative Structure

Most of us in/of Bangladesh have had to tutor ourselves hurriedly in the world of Burmese history and politics, in the face of “hosting”—almost overnight—what is apparently the world’s largest refugee camp. It is in this spirit, with no claims to expertise on the subject, that I have sketched out my thoughts in this essay.