Citizenship and Genocide Cards : IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar

This book, which is available open access here, draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmar’s genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to legal identities and statelessness. By centring the narratives of survivors of state crimes, collected in the aftermath of the 2017 genocidal violence, this book examines the multiple uses of state-issued ID cards and registration documents in producing statelessness and facilitating genocide. In doing so, it challenges some of the international solutions put forward to resolve statelessness. Please read the Introduction "IDs for Rohingyas: Pathways to citizenship or instruments of genocide", which provides background to these issue, and Chapter 7: Genocide Cards'  IDs, registration, and the phases of Rohingya genocide. 
Chapter 7 explores how registration and identity card schemes in Myanmar feature in Rohingya narratives as attempts to destroy Rohingya identities and impose new exclusionary national identities. Drawing on the phases of genocide framework developed by Daniel Feierstein, it focuses on the role of IDs and registration in stigmatisation, harassment and isolation, policies of systematic weakening, preparation and extermination, and symbolic enactment.