Research Catalog

Title

Stateless / Chen Tienshi Lara ; translated by Louis Carlet.

Author

Chin, Tenji, 1971-

Publication

Singapore : NUS Press, [2024]

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Details

Additional Authors

Carlet, Louis

Description

xv, 236 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Japan's 1971 termination of diplomatic ties with the Republic of China left 9,200 Chinese residents stateless. Tienshi "Lara" Chen was one of them, born to Chinese parents in Yokohama's Chinatown. What does it mean to be stateless? What does it feel like? To answer, Stateless presents Chen's engaging autobiographical account of her bi-cultural upbringing and Japanese education. She reflects on her experience of statelessness eventually led her into a career spanning academia and activism, and she analyzes the contradictions inherent in the concepts of nationality, nation-state, and citizenship, in a world where individual nationality, identity, and experience are increasingly complex. She concludes that the current system of regulating individuals with citizenship is unworkable in the long run. Blending life writing, auto-ethnography, and a study of stateless communities around Asia, this book unpacks the idea of citizenship by showing the hidden everyday narratives and lived experiences of stateless persons who have no legal ties to any nation-state. Originally published in Japanese, this adapted and updated English edition critically engages with questions of borders, mobility, belonging, and identity.

Uniform Title

Mukokuseki. English

Alternative Title

Mukokuseki.

Subject

• Chin, Tenji, 1971-
• Chinese > Japan > Biography
• Stateless persons > Japan
• Statelessness
• Chinese
• Stateless persons
• China
• Japan

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Prologue -- Chapter 1 : Lara of Chinatown -- Chapter 2 : Living in the Crevasse between Two Countries -- Chapter 3 : Assimilating into Japanese Society -- Chapter 4 : Venturing into the World, Learning about the World -- Chapter 5 : Off to Hong Kong, Off to America -- Chapter 6 : Learning about Statelessness -- Chapter 7 : Asians and Statelessness -- Chapter 8 : Applying for Naturalization -- Chapter 9 : Statelessness in other Countries -- Chapter 10 : Launching NGO Stateless Network -- Chapter 11 : Not Someone Else's Problem -- Chapter 12 : State-Engendered Conceptual Boundaries : Nationality, IDs, Xenophobia and COVID-19 -- Epilogue

Call Number

JFE 24-1151

ISBN

• 9813252324
• 9789813252325

OCLC

1373830761

Author

Chin, Tenji, 1971- author.

Title

Stateless / Chen Tienshi Lara ; translated by Louis Carlet.

Publisher

Singapore : NUS Press, [2024]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Carlet, Louis, translator.

Other Form:

ePDF version: 9789813252332

ePub version: 9789813252714

Research Call Number

JFE 24-1151