7. The Urdu-speakers of Bangladesh: an unfinished story of enforcing citizenship rights Copyright © 2011. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. All rights reserved. Katherine Southwick Source: © Greg Constantine 2010. Figure 7.1 Overcrowding plagues every camp. Living conditions are cramped and pose safety and health problems as families, some as large as 15, live in 8 x 10 feet living spaces. In a room decorated with old newspapers glued to the walls, a family of seven lives and works in Kurmi Tola Camp in Dhaka. Members of the Urdu-speaking minority in Bangladesh have always had a right to citizenship under national law, but the challenge has come from enforcing that right and the benefits that attach to it. Bangladeshi courts have recognized Urdu-speakers as citizens in successive cases 115 Statelessness Citizenship115 : A Comparative Study on the Benefits of Nationality, edited by Brad K. Blitz, and Maureen Lynch, M2482 - BLITZand PRINT.indd 21/12/2010 11:56 Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2011. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bham/detail.action?docID=655534. Created from bham on 2023-11-30 09:57:20.