The Rohingya in South Asia People Without a State

Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury is Professor in the Department of Political Science, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India, and also a Member of Calcutta Research Group. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute fur die Wissenschaft vom Menschen (IWM), Vienna, Austria in 2023. His areas of interest include global politics, South Asian politics, human mobilities, platform economy, and sociology of labour. He has recently co-edited Sites of Statelessness: Laws, Cities, Seas (2024).

Ranabir Samaddar is currently Emeritus Professor at the Calcutta Research Group. He belongs to the critical school of thinking and is considered one of the foremost theorists in the field of migration and forced migration studies. His writings on migration, forms of labour, urbanization, and political struggles have signalled a new turn in post-colonial thinking. Among his influential works are The Marginal Nation: Transborder Migration from Bangladesh to West Bengal (1999), Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age (2018), and, written in the background of the COVID pandemic, A Pandemic and the Politics of Life (2021). Imprints of the Populist Time (2022) and Biopolitics from Below: Crisis, Conjuncture, Rupture (2025) carry forward his work on the need to reconceptualize democracy in the postcolonial context.