Statelessness, Refugeehood and ‘Subhuman’ Life: A Case of the Rohingya

Описание: Professor Nasir Uddin is a cultural anthropologist based in Bangladesh and a Senior Faculty
member of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chittagong. Professor Uddin
has held Visiting Fellow/Visiting Scholar/Visiting Professor positions at Harvard University,
Oxford University, the University of Sydney, the School of Oriental and African Studies
(SOAS), the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE), Johns Hopkins
University, East-West Center, Washington DC, Heidelberg University, VU University
Amsterdam, Ruhr-University Bochum, Delhi School of Economics at Delhi University, the
University of Hull, Kyoto University and the University of Shizuko. He has achieved several
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prestigious awards and fellowships, including the MEXT Scholarship, the British Academy
Visiting Scholarship, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, Japan Society for
the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship, a Visiting Scholarship at LSE, a Visiting
Fellowship at Oxford University, the Asian Studies Fellowship at East-West Center,
Washington, DC, James Social Science Fellowship at the University of Sydney, Visiting
Professorship at Heidelberg University, and Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Kyoto
University. He has published scholarly pieces extensively with globally leading publishing
houses, including the Cambridge University Press, the Oxford University Press, the
University of Pennsylvania Press, Routledge, SAGE, Springer, Palgrave Macmillan, Berghahn,
Bloomsbury, Orient BlackSwan and so on. His latest edited books include "Deterritorialised
Identity and Transborder Movement in South Asia", co-edited with Nasreen Chowdhory
(Springer, 2019), "The Rohingya Crisis: Human Rights Issues, Policy Concerns and Burden
Sharing" (SAGE, 2021), "Refugees and the Media: Local and Global Perspectives," co-edited
with Delaware Arif (Palgrave, 2024), "Reshaping Rohingya Futures: Coping Strategies and
Emerging Agencies" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025) and "Scattered Lives of Stateless People:
The Rohingyas in SAARC and ASEAN Countries" (Springer, 2025). His latest books include
"The Rohingya: An Ethnography of 'Subhuman' Life" (The Oxford University Press, 2020),
"Voices of the Rohingya People: A Case of Genocide, Ethnocide and 'Subhuman' Life"
(Palgrave, 2022) and "Indigeneity, Marginality and the State in Bangladesh: Homeless at
Home" (Routledge, 2024). His book "The Rohingya: An Ethnography of 'Subhuman' Life" was
short-listed as the best book in social sciences published in 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 by
the International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS). Professor Uddin's theory of
'subhuman' life is widely discussed in the area of scholarship on refugees, migrants, non
citizens, asylum seekers, stateless people, IDPs and forcibly displaced people.