Access to Justice
Courts, legal recourse,
accountability
mechanisms
No legal standing in Myanmar
courts
No access to Bangladeshi courts for
most claims
Note: Assessment based on author field research (2024-2026), UNHCR (2025), and legal framework analysis. Scale reflects
structural rights access, not individual variation.
Source: Author assessment based on field research (2024-2026), UNHCR (2025), and legal framework analysis. Scale 0-10:
0=complete denial, 10=full realization.
2.3 Constructive Statelessness and Structural Violence
Blitz (2009) distinguishes inadvertent statelessness from constructive statelessness —
deliberately produced through state policy aimed at the legal elimination of an ethnic group.
Table 2 demonstrates that when assessed across four key dimensions, the Rohingya case
represents an extreme of constructed statelessness unmatched by other documented
populations. Galtung's (1969) structural violence framework provides the unifying analytical
lens: the harm of statelessness operates through the normal functioning of legal institutions
rather than identifiable acts of aggression.
Table 2: Comparative Analysis — Stateless Populations Across Key Dimensions
Population
Type (Blitz
2009)
Deliberateness
(1=low,5=high)
5
Severity
International
Response
Durable Solution
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