The Rohingya: An Ethnography of ‘Subhuman’ Life. By Nasir Uddin, Oxford University Press, 2020, 268 pp.

This ethnography by Nasir Uddin illustrates the protracted state-run marginalization, persecution, and vulnerability of Rohingya Muslims of Burma or present-day Myanmar.As a scholar born in Cox's Bazar and trained in anthropology in Bangladesh and abroad, the author has been researching and writing extensively on the Rohingya refugee issue for more than two decades.Prior to this ethnography, he investigated transnational movements, identity politics, deterritorialization, vulnerability, and statelessness, hence addressing the Rohingya crisis from a South Asian perspective.The present work develops the "subhuman life" theory-a theory that advances the narrative of vulnerability of statelessness in general, and clarifies further what is to be understood through categorizing the experiences of marginalized people in this way.The Rohingya comprises eight distinctive chapters, all of which play a role in helping Uddin construct the subhuman life theory.The introduction and the third chapter offer an in-depth context of Rohingya people in Myanmar and Bangladesh.