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Residents hold their documents as they stand in a queue to check their names on the final list of National Register of Citizens (NRC) at a NRC Sewa Kendra (NSK) in Burgoan village in Morigoan district on July 30, 2018. India on July 30 stripped four million people of citizenship in the northeastern state of Assam, under a draft list that has sparked fears of deportation of largely Bengali-speaking Muslims. Photo: AFP
Posted inBangladesh, India, South Asia

Nationalities and rights held hostage to documentation

by Nandita Saikia October 17, 2018October 17, 2018

In the debate around the National Register for Citizens (NRC) in Assam, loose talk of concentration camps has already been heard despite the many concerns it raises. As discussed in the first part of this series, there is no justification for so much as the possibility of concentration camps being raised in imagination, let alone […]

A man looks for his name on the first draft of the National Register of Citizens in Guwahati in the Indian state of Assam on January 1, 2018. Around 13 million people in Assam woke up to uncertainty on that day after the release of an official registry with names of only 19m of the state's over 32 million residents. Photo: AFP
Posted inAT Finance, Bangladesh, European Union, Germany, India, Myanmar, Pakistan, South Asia, World

Concentration camps, citizenship and the burden of erasure in India

by Nandita Saikia October 16, 2018

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