Ayşe Çağlar is Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vienna University, and a Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna. Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury is Professor of Political Science at the Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India. Ranabir Samaddar is Distinguished Chair Professor of Migration and Forced Migration Studies at the Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Abandoned to be StatelessSabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, Ayşe Çağlar, and Ranabir SamaddarPart I: Law as a Site of Statelessness 1. Revisiting (Il)legal Sites of Statelessness in South AsiaSabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury2. The Production of Statelessness in EuropeElspeth Guild and Sandra Mantu3. The Banality of Statelessness and the Impossibility of Counting the DispossessedNergis CanefePart II: City as a Site of Statelessness 4. The Conundrum of Trafficking and Statelessness in West BengalPaula Banerjee and Sangbida Lahiri5. Can Undesirables Inhabit the World? From Camps to Instant CitiesMichel Agier (translated by Helen Morrison)6. Stateless in Informal SettlementsEfadul Huq and Faranak Miraftab7. Statelessness and Camp Settlements: The Curious Case of South AsiaNasreen Chowdhory and Shamna Thacham PoyilPart III: Sea as a Site of Statelessness 8. The Tragic Journey of Komagata Maru: Empire, Immigrants, and AnxietySubhas Ranjan Chakraborty9. Subjects at Sea: Jahaji Relationships and Their DiscontentsSamata Biswas10. Governing Migrant Mobilities in the Aegean Sea: From Moral Rhetoric to Blatant Use of ViolenceSibel Karadağ11. Sea, Refugees, and Stateless Migrants on the Bay: The RohingyaSucharita Sengupta12. Logistics of Maritime Capitalism: Flags of Convenience and the Statelessness at SeaJoyce C. H. Liu, Yu-Fan Chiu, and Jonathan S. ParhusipBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

"As opposed to the traditional state-centered and legalistic conceptualization of statelessness the core argument of this volume opens a series of novel analytical trajectories. It fosters an examination of the conditions of de facto statelessness, thus blurring distinctions between citizen and stateless persons. To the same effect, it shifts the analysis towards a concern with precarity and abandonment. Each chapter helps us (re)think 'familiar' debates—such as those on logistics, urban spaces, migration across the Mediterranean, and others—through this reframed concept of statelessness, broadening the significance of the volume's contribution beyond the specific realm in which it emerges. The most significant aspect of this volume is not so much that it 'contributes to the field,' but rather that it attempts to create one." — Paolo Novak, SOAS University of London

Ayşe Çağlar is Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vienna University, and a Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna. Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury is Professor of Political Science at the Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India. Ranabir Samaddar is Distinguished Chair Professor of Migration and Forced Migration Studies at the Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Abandoned to be StatelessSabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, Ayşe Çağlar, and Ranabir SamaddarPart I: Law as a Site of Statelessness 1. Revisiting (Il)legal Sites of Statelessness in South AsiaSabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury2. The Production of Statelessness in EuropeElspeth Guild and Sandra Mantu3. The Banality of Statelessness and the Impossibility of Counting the DispossessedNergis CanefePart II: City as a Site of Statelessness 4. The Conundrum of Trafficking and Statelessness in West BengalPaula Banerjee and Sangbida Lahiri5. Can Undesirables Inhabit the World? From Camps to Instant CitiesMichel Agier (translated by Helen Morrison)6. Stateless in Informal SettlementsEfadul Huq and Faranak Miraftab7. Statelessness and Camp Settlements: The Curious Case of South AsiaNasreen Chowdhory and Shamna Thacham PoyilPart III: Sea as a Site of Statelessness 8. The Tragic Journey of Komagata Maru: Empire, Immigrants, and AnxietySubhas Ranjan Chakraborty9. Subjects at Sea: Jahaji Relationships and Their DiscontentsSamata Biswas10. Governing Migrant Mobilities in the Aegean Sea: From Moral Rhetoric to Blatant Use of ViolenceSibel Karadağ11. Sea, Refugees, and Stateless Migrants on the Bay: The RohingyaSucharita Sengupta12. Logistics of Maritime Capitalism: Flags of Convenience and the Statelessness at SeaJoyce C. H. Liu, Yu-Fan Chiu, and Jonathan S. ParhusipBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

"As opposed to the traditional state-centered and legalistic conceptualization of statelessness the core argument of this volume opens a series of novel analytical trajectories. It fosters an examination of the conditions of de facto statelessness, thus blurring distinctions between citizen and stateless persons. To the same effect, it shifts the analysis towards a concern with precarity and abandonment. Each chapter helps us (re)think 'familiar' debates—such as those on logistics, urban spaces, migration across the Mediterranean, and others—through this reframed concept of statelessness, broadening the significance of the volume's contribution beyond the specific realm in which it emerges. The most significant aspect of this volume is not so much that it 'contributes to the field,' but rather that it attempts to create one." — Paolo Novak, SOAS University of London

Ayşe Çağlar is Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vienna University, and a Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna. Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury is Professor of Political Science at the Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India. Ranabir Samaddar is Distinguished Chair Professor of Migration and Forced Migration Studies at the Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Abandoned to be StatelessSabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, Ayşe Çağlar, and Ranabir SamaddarPart I: Law as a Site of Statelessness 1. Revisiting (Il)legal Sites of Statelessness in South AsiaSabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury2. The Production of Statelessness in EuropeElspeth Guild and Sandra Mantu3. The Banality of Statelessness and the Impossibility of Counting the DispossessedNergis CanefePart II: City as a Site of Statelessness 4. The Conundrum of Trafficking and Statelessness in West BengalPaula Banerjee and Sangbida Lahiri5. Can Undesirables Inhabit the World? From Camps to Instant CitiesMichel Agier (translated by Helen Morrison)6. Stateless in Informal SettlementsEfadul Huq and Faranak Miraftab7. Statelessness and Camp Settlements: The Curious Case of South AsiaNasreen Chowdhory and Shamna Thacham PoyilPart III: Sea as a Site of Statelessness 8. The Tragic Journey of Komagata Maru: Empire, Immigrants, and AnxietySubhas Ranjan Chakraborty9. Subjects at Sea: Jahaji Relationships and Their DiscontentsSamata Biswas10. Governing Migrant Mobilities in the Aegean Sea: From Moral Rhetoric to Blatant Use of ViolenceSibel Karadağ11. Sea, Refugees, and Stateless Migrants on the Bay: The RohingyaSucharita Sengupta12. Logistics of Maritime Capitalism: Flags of Convenience and the Statelessness at SeaJoyce C. H. Liu, Yu-Fan Chiu, and Jonathan S. ParhusipBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

"As opposed to the traditional state-centered and legalistic conceptualization of statelessness the core argument of this volume opens a series of novel analytical trajectories. It fosters an examination of the conditions of de facto statelessness, thus blurring distinctions between citizen and stateless persons. To the same effect, it shifts the analysis towards a concern with precarity and abandonment. Each chapter helps us (re)think 'familiar' debates—such as those on logistics, urban spaces, migration across the Mediterranean, and others—through this reframed concept of statelessness, broadening the significance of the volume's contribution beyond the specific realm in which it emerges. The most significant aspect of this volume is not so much that it 'contributes to the field,' but rather that it attempts to create one." — Paolo Novak, SOAS University of London