"This book challenges current views of what it means to be a citizen by focusing on displacement and experiences of space as a political concept. Developing the concept of 'political space', the author analyses how historical processes shape spatial arrangements, informing the identities and political subjectivity available to people. Using Bangladesh as a case study for camp and non-camp based displacement, the book argues that concepts of citizenship are temporally, socially and spatially produced and that therefore crude binary oppositions of statelessness and citizenship are no longer relevant. The book's findings are of relevance to wider problems of displacement, citizenship and ethnic relations worldwide"--
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction
Statelessness and citizenship
Displacement and state protection
`Bare life'
Camps and the creation of political space
The historical and social setting
Urdu-speakers in national and international law, 1972-2008
Conducting research at the limits of the state
2.Spatial formations of exclusion
The state, the nation and its citizens
Nationalism, citizenship and the postcolonial nation-state
Ethnicity, identity and community
`Diaspora' and displacement
Natural, social and `political space'
3.The socio-spatial contours of community
Boundaries
Intersections
The socio-spatial structure
Conclusion
4.The crafting of citizenship: Property, territory and the post-colonial state
Histories of citizenship in Bangladesh
Agency, choice and blame
Space and `substantive' access
Claiming political subjectivity
Contents note continued: 5.The `social field of citizenship' and the language of rights
`Identities of citizenship'
Property and citizenship in Bangladesh: past and present
Gains and losses
A look to the future
6.Discourses of `integration': Capital, movement and `modernity'
Economic capital
Cultural capital: language
Cultural capital: foods, festivals, religion
Social capital
`Passing as Bengali'
7.Conclusion
Nationlist discourse and the `crafting of citizenship'
The creation of political space
Agents or objects? The camp as a social form
Globalising forces and emergent spaces.
