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The question of whether arbitrary deprivation of nationality constitutes persecution for the purposes of a determination of refugee status has received increased attention in recent jurisprudence. However, no systematic argument has been... more
‘Post-national’ scholars have taken the extension of social rights to migrants that are normally accorded to citizens as evidence of the growing importance of norms of ‘universal personhood’ and the declining importance of the... more
A synthesis of English, Ge'ez, Amharic, Oromo, and the Hebrew Bible for the purpose of pursuing peace through scholarship.
In this paper I attempt to show that, through his reading of Proudhon in The Elementary Structures of Kinship (1949), Lévi-Strauss aimed at solving the well-known dilemma put forth by Hobbes and Rousseau: was there at the dawn of humanity... more
This article examines how Palestinians in France, Sweden and the UK negotiate, mobilise and/or resist, and ultimately problematise, notions of statelessness as a concept and as a marker of identity. Centralising Palestinians’... more
The lack of universal birth registration is an international issue affecting an estimated 48 million children a year, who are not registered at birth. These unregistered children are stateless, defined as people who are not considered a... more
Statelessness in international law by professor Laura van Waas.
Translation to Portuguese: Carolina de Abreu Batista Claro.
Translation to Portuguese: Carolina de Abreu Batista Claro.
Statelessness some could say is one of the worst Human Rights abuses of today. For this we will look at the Rohingya. Myanmar's Rohingya people represent a group that has been prosecuted in Burma for their ethnic, cultural and religious... more
Kertas kerja ini bertujuan untuk membincangkan tentang penemuan awal kajian mengenai pengalaman komuniti Pulau Mabul yang terdiri daripada orang kampung dan kanak-kanak tidak bersekolah. Dalam konteks masyarakat Malaysia yang berbilang... more
ABSTRACT In Myanmar, the state and the Buddhist-majority civil society have long been hostile to the people known as the Rohingya. The Muslim Rohingya have lived in Rakhine state for centuries, but the Myanmar government, labelling them... more
The complex gerontocratic governance system of the Karimojong, the largest ethnic group in Karamoja, was challenged in the second half of the twentieth century by the combined forces of the modernising Ugandan nation-state and... more
Syllabus, graduate seminar, Anthropology, UC Berkeley, Fall 2016
The first chapter of the book is based on my field work in Bangladesh in 2015. It looks into the precarious drives of the stateless Rohingya across the Bay of Bengal in perilous boat journeys. Many die in the process otr find themselves... more
The book is written by anthropologists, historians, and archaeologists specializing in nomadic studies. All the chapters presented here discuss various aspects of one significant problem: how could small nomadic peoples at the outskirts... more
The civil war broke out on March 15, 2011 with the political tension between either domestically legitimate or illegitimate actors in Syria so that many people had impelledly or forcedly to migrate neighboring countries via crossing the... more
Until quite recently, cultural evolution has commonly been regarded as the permanent teleological move to a greater level of hierarchy, crowned by state formation. However, recent research, particularly those based upon the principle of... more
В монографии на максимально широкой и многообразной источниковой базе, с привлечением большого массива отечественной и зарубежной (в том числе африканской) научной литературы реконструирован ход политической истории Бенина и прослежен... more
In this paper the language and narratives used to explain the situation of the Rohingya, an unrecognized minority living in Myanmar, will be deconstructed through the discourses of Arendt and Rancière. This will shed a light on the... more
Il contributo presenta una panoramica delle elaborazioni teoriche e delle forme di organizzazione e mobilitazione riguardanti il riconoscimento e l'affermazione della specifica identità culturale del Friuli e le correlate istanze di... more
The metaphor of kinship has played an important part in symbolic representation of many states of all types. With transition to the state kinship ceases the role of the central organizing principle of society. However, the very social... more
In political theory it goes without saying that the constitution of government raises a claim for legitimacy. With the constitution of the people, however, it is different. It is often dismissed as a historical question. The conviction is... more
The paper provides an anthropological analysis of the socio-political system of the Kingdom of Benin during the longest and most important period of her history: from coming to power of the ruling up to now Second (Oba) dynasty presumably... more
In history books, we often find terms such as partition, migrant, refugee, illegal immigrant and stateless person, which however do not reflect how emotionally loaded these categories became in the context of the Partition of India in... more
In spite of a boom of ‘expert’ literature and the development of policies to identify and resolve situations of statelessness since the 2000s, little is known about how individuals and groups, who are defined as ‘stateless people’ by... more
"The advent to power of the Second (Oba) dynasty in the early 13th century signified considerable increase of centripetal tendencies in the Benin society. However, the centuries of its rule did not result in the socio-political... more
Forced migration across the borders in South Asia is often conflated with “economic migration”, thereby blurring the distinction between “forced” and “vo- lition”. A migrant in need of asylum often gets branded as an “economic migrant” or... more
This essay assesses the gaps in India's legal doctrine on stateless people and migrants in context of the ongoing National Register of Citizens (NRC) project in the Northeast Indian state of Assam, which aims to identify immigrants of... more
В монографии выявляется и описывается социоантропологическая модель функционирования древнебенинского общества, раскрывается механизм соотнесения, взаиморегуляции и взаимопроникновения миров социальной и мифологической реальности.... more
طبق ماده ی 976 قانون مدنی، تابعیت ایرانی از طریق نسب پدری قابل انتقال به فرزند خواهد بود و در بند 5 این ماده نیز آمده است کسانی که در ایران از پدری که تبعه ی خارجه است به دنیا آمدهاند میتوانند پس از رسیدن به 18 سالگی نسبت به ارائه... more
Academic knowledge production on Palestine and its people has been very resonant for decades. Yet, and despite the high frequency of production, some aspects of Palestine and Palestinians have not been investigated nor brought together... more
چکیده: در ده های اخیر و به دلیل شرایط نامساعد و نا آرام و جنگ داخلی در برخی کشورهای همسایه، شمار زیادی از پناهجویان در ایران اقامت گزیدند که عموما از اتباع افغانستانی و عراقی می باشند. ازدواج بسیاری از ایشان با زنان ایرانی مشکلات بعدی و... more
This article has the intention to review the concept of citizenship, by exploring its role as instrument of access to rights and political participation. Then, it is reassessed its current position, in face of the international human... more
"Until recently, cultural evolution has commonly been regarded as a permanent teleological move to a greater level of hierarchy, crowned with state formation. However, recent research based upon the principle of heterarchy – ‘... the... more
The right for individuals to have citizenship is a human right according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, yet people are being denied citizenship rights because individual countries have their rights (as sovereign states) to... more