Rohingyas and the Geographies of Precarity in Exile
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Anas Ansar
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Focusing on Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and Malaysia, this study provides an in-depth analysis of the contribution of historical legacies of exclusion, along with contemporary practices of marginalisation and otherisation to the transcendence of the precarity landscape. In light of the 2017 displacement of over a million Rohingya from Myanmar’s Rakhine state to neighbouring Bangladesh, the book offers a nuanced and empirically driven analysis of precarity across a wide spectrum at discrete and overlapping scales, shaped by statelessness, vulnerability, uncertainty, onward migration and everyday practices of exclusion. Bringing together the diverse manifestation along the lines of identity, status, space, mobility, gender and labour, the study proposes a comprehensive understanding of precarity, conceptualised as the ‘interconnected geographies of precarity’. Elucidating the intricate web of structural constraints that predate (in Myanmar) and are continually reconstructed and actualised (in exile), the book examines the continuum of precarity in extended transnational spaces – a phenomenon that is complex, non-linear, transitional and multi-faceted.
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Anas Ansar, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute, Freiburg, Germany.
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgements
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Contents
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1 Introduction
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2 Precarity and Beyond: Conceptualising Forced Displacement and the Quotidian Existence of Refugees in Exile
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3 Research Methods and Challenges in Fieldwork in Times of Crisis: Navigating the Pandemic, Mercurial Political Context and Other Constraints
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4 Ominous Politics of Othering, Exclusion and Disenfranchisement: Revisiting Rohingya Identity Precarity Through the Historical Prisms
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5 Living with Uncertainty and Policy Ambiguity: Analysing the Legal Precarity of Rohingyas in Bangladesh and Malaysia
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6 Within yet Outside: Everyday Life Precarity of Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh
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7 Onward Precarity or a Better Life: The Onward Migration of Rohingya Refugees From Bangladesh to Malaysia
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8 Limits of Belonging: Interconnected Geographies of Precarity and Dependency in the Everyday Lives of Rohingyas
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Bibliography
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Index
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