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Understanding Statelessness and Resilience in Assam, India

  • Abdul Kalam Azad

Research output: PhD ThesisPhD-Thesis - Research and graduation internal

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Abstract

“Understanding Statelessness and Resilience in Assam, India” tries to understand statelessness through the lived experience of people affected and how they build resilience and agency. This PhD project involved several sub-projects to answer specific questions like how to understand the mechanisms of statelessness, role of gender in the statelessness processes and mechanisms, how to understand the actions of people involved in the implementation of statelessness mechanisms, and how to understand resilience and agency through the actions of community workers and poets.
Original languageEnglish
QualificationPhD
Awarding Institution
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Supervisors/Advisors
  • Bunders-Aelen, Joske, Supervisor
  • Mander, Harsh, Co-supervisor, -
  • de Wit, Emma Emily, Co-supervisor
Award date13 Jun 2022
Place of Publicationsl
Publisher
Publication statusPublished - 13 Jun 2022

Keywords

  • Statelessness, Resilience, Resistance, Citizenship, Art based resistance, counter-storytelling, epistemic justice, structural violence, gender and citizenship, Assam, India, Miya community.

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