Deprivation of Citizenship as Colonial Violence: Deracination and Dispossession in Assam

IF 3.5 2区社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI:10.1093/ips/olac009

Rudabeh Shahid, Joseph Turner

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Abstract

This article argues that deprivation of citizenship is an ongoing force of colonial violence. By exploring the case of citizenship stripping in India's northeastern state of Assam, the article proposes that the removal of citizenship rights is not merely an aberration of the “normal” rules of citizenship but bound up with ongoing forms of colonial dispossession informed by racial hierarchies, the regulation of belonging and mobility. Interdisciplinary scholarship on deprivation of citizenship remains largely Euro/Western-centric and fails to consider how deprivation works as part of broader patterns of colonial-modern dispossession. By drawing on Gurminder K. Bhambra's (2015) work on the colonial constitution of citizenship and Aurora Vergara-Figueroa's (2018) work on deracination, we treat deprivation of citizenship as a legacy of the colonial and racialized structure of citizenship itself. By using Assam as a case study, the article examines how practices of deprivations are tied to the histories of dispossession, extraction, and control, which underpinned the historical emergence of citizenship in (post)colonial India and beyond.

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作为殖民暴力的剥夺公民身份:阿萨姆邦的剥夺和剥夺

本文认为剥夺公民权是殖民暴力的一种持续力量。通过对印度东北部阿萨姆邦(Assam)公民身份被剥夺的案例进行研究，文章提出，公民权利的剥夺不仅是对“正常”公民身份规则的一种偏离，而且与种族等级制度、归属感和流动性监管所导致的持续形式的殖民剥夺密切相关。关于剥夺公民权的跨学科研究仍然主要以欧洲/西方为中心，未能考虑剥夺如何作为殖民-现代剥夺的更广泛模式的一部分。通过借鉴Gurminder K. Bhambra(2015)关于公民身份的殖民宪法的研究和Aurora Vergara-Figueroa(2018)关于剥夺公民身份的研究，我们将公民身份的剥夺视为公民身份本身的殖民和种族化结构的遗产。本文以阿萨姆邦为例，考察了剥夺的实践如何与剥夺、榨取和控制的历史联系在一起，这些历史支撑了(后)殖民时期印度及其他地区公民身份的历史出现。

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