Imaginaries of law, borders, and rights : forced migrant voices of change.

Door: Kaur, Kiran.

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• ISBN: 9789463619561
• Uitgever: [S.l. : s.n.], 2024. Paperback. [6],497 pp. Illustrations. Thesis University of Tilburg. Conditie: als nieuw
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• Extra informatie: - Malaysia is home to a significant number of stateless persons, refugees and asylum seekers (forced migrants). However, the Malaysian government, which has not signed the 1951 Convention of Relating to the Status of Refugees, does not officially recognize these individuals. This has meant that they reside in Malaysia as ‘illegal’ residents. Without formal recognition by the state, they are deprived of safe access to healthcare and education. Further, they are unable to work legally and find themselves in unsafe and/or exploitative working conditions. It is a challenge to truly understand what it means for forced migrants to experience and live in these conditions. Therefore, in this study, the concept of the 'floating city of Polity' was used as a metaphor for Kuala Lumpur. The floating city is divided - with the top half living as citizens, busy in their lives as legal inhabitants of the city. The undercity, a darker and more challenging space shows how the lives of these refugees are constrained by borders. The research probes the significance of refugees having a voice, particularly for those who exist on the edges of society, in a vacuum of rights outside the recognized boundaries of state protection. As such the floating city is best understood as a city of borders.Borders are built on and fuelled by imagination. However, the power and violence they exhibit is very real. How we imagine the state and its limits defines what borders come to mean to those who live within them. These imaginations include how we come to understand the categories of the state, the everyday lives of its citizens, and who is included and who is not. Such state imaginaries have a significant impact, capable of redefining everything within their influence, and dividing citizens from ‘the other’. In this loud context, in which overlapping narratives of the state and its borders exhibit their force, the calls for change from forced migrant communities often go unheard.
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