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""This book challenges current views of what it means to be a citizen by focusing on displacement and experiences of space as a political concept. Developing the concept of 'political space', the author analyses how historical processes shape spatial arrangements, informing the identities and political subjectivity available to people. Using Bangladesh as a case study for camp and non-camp based displacement, the book argues that concepts of citizenship are temporally, socially and spatially produced and that therefore crude binary oppositions of statelessness and citizenship are no longer relevant. The book's findings are of relevance to wider problems of displacement, citizenship and ethnic relations worldwide"--ContentsMachine generated contents note: 1.IntroductionStatelessness and citizenshipDisplacement and state protection`Bare life'Camps and the creation of political spaceThe historical and social settingUrdu-speakers in national and international law, 1972-2008Conducting research at the limits of the state2.Spatial formations of exclusionThe state, the nation and its citizensNationalism, citizenship and the postcolonial nation-stateEthnicity, identity and community`Diaspora' and displacementNatural, social and `political space'3.The socio-spatial contours of communityBoundariesIntersectionsThe socio-spatial structureConclusion4.The crafting of citizenship: Property, territory and the post-colonial stateHistories of citizenship in BangladeshAgency, choice and blameSpace and `substantive' accessClaiming political subjectivityContents note continued: 5.The `social field of citizenship' and the language of rights`Identities of citizenship'Property and citizenship in Bangladesh: past and presentGains and lossesA look to the future6.Discourses of `integration': Capital, movement and `modernity'Economic capitalCultural capital: languageCultural capital: foods, festivals, religionSocial capital`Passing as Bengali'7.ConclusionNationlist discourse and the `crafting of citizenship'The creation of political spaceAgents or objects? The camp as a social formGlobalising forces and emergent spaces."

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ABSTRACTRelatively little is known or understood about Bangladesh by outsiders. Since its hard-won independence from Pakistan in 1971, it has been ravaged by economic and environmental disasters. Only recently has the country begun to emerge as a fragile, but functioning, parliamentary democracy, relatively self-sufficient in food production and with an economy that has been consistently achieving growth. The story of Bangladesh, told through the pages of this concise and readable book, is a truly remarkable one. By delving into its past, and through an analysis of the economic, political and social changes that have taken place over the last twenty years, the book explains how Bangladesh is becoming of increasing interest to the international community as a portal into some of the key issues of our age: the way globalization affects the world's poorer countries, the long-term effects of the international development industry, the potential risks to people and environment from climate change and the political challenges facing modern Muslim-majority nations. In this way the book offers an important corrective to the view of Bangladesh as a failed state and also sheds light on the lives of a new generation of its citizens."