12 Introduction with particular reference to the work of Gregory Stanton (2004, 2017) and Daniel Feierstein (2014, 2015). It also considers how Rohingya narratives often refer to attempts to destroy their identity through state ID schemes as part of a ‘masterplan’ or state intent relating to genocide. Chapter 7, ‘“Genocide Cards”: IDs, Registration, and the Phases of Rohingya Genocide,’ draws predominantly on the scholarship relating to ‘reorganising genocides’ (Feierstein 2014) to explore Rohingya experiences of Myanmar’s registration and ID schemes. It considers how ID schemes were utilised as a technology to reorganise national identities and social relations in such a way as to destroy Rohingya identity and establish a new exclusive national identity without Rohingya. Chapter 8, ‘IDs and International Approaches to Rohingya Statelessness: Towards Social Inclusion or Identity Destruction?,’ explores where Rohingya understandings and experiences of the role of state-issued IDs diverge from the approaches of international agencies working to resolve Rohingya statelessness in Myanmar. Referring back to previous chapters, it considers the increasing push within global governance to provide ‘legal identities for all’ as a method of managing international development projects, international migration, and refugee situations. Whilst the language of legal identities for all is couched within the discourses of human rights and resolving statelessness, Rohingya narratives suggest that approaches that support the provision of Myanmar’s IDs and registration served to legitimise an abusive state system and set them on a trajectory away from citizenship recognition, not on a pathway towards citizenship. The concluding chapter, ‘Seeing the State and Criminality in Statelessness,’ summarises the findings from the chapters, focusing on how Rohingya narratives from this research have disrupted some of the assumptions about ‘the stateless person’ and ‘the state’ that inform international action plans and approaches to reducing and resolving statelessness. In this chapter, I also consider the contributions of this research to scholarship about state crime, legal identities, and statelessness. I outline the value of methodologies that explore the ID narratives of people affected by statelessness. I conclude that better consideration of how people affected by statelessness or citizenship deprivation understand and experience the state and its bureaucracies in statelessness research and policy consideration is vital in assessing and improving the effectiveness of actions to reduce and prevent statelessness. In particular, state crime frameworks and analysis of the potential for ID systems to be utilised by states to do harm are conspicuously absent in the global push for IDs for all. Notes 1 The name of the country was officially changed from Burma to Myanmar in 1989 under the military junta called State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC). The political and ethnic opposition continued to contest the name. It was only after the reforms of 2010 that the term Myanmar became gradually

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