😡"The dimension which concerns me here is the new centrality of bureaucratic documentation as the sole and over-riding criterion of citizenship…(the statizen) has been granted a state-certified document. All his or her rights flow from that fact alone." <a href="https://thewire.in/rights/goodbye-citizenship-hello-statizenship">https://thewire.in/rights/goodbye-citizenship-hello-statizenship</a>

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Christopher Allen

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😡"The dimension which concerns me here is the new centrality of bureaucratic documentation as the sole and over-riding criterion of citizenship…(the statizen) has been granted a state-certified document. All his or her rights flow from that fact alone." https://thewire.in/rights/goodbye-citizenship-hello-statizenship

2/10/2020, 1:07:19 PM

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Christopher Allen

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"Many activists protested against the Aadhaar card on the grounds that it would become a basis for controlling dissent and identifying political enemies rather than serving as a tool for social entitlement. They were not wrong."…

2/10/2020, 1:24:30 PM

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Christopher Allen

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"The real innovation of Aadhaar was not its bio-metric infrastructure but its success in defining a state-issued document as the basis of all of life – voting, rations, loans, taxation and more. Aadhaar was the midwife of the birth of the statizen in India."

2/10/2020, 1:24:53 PM

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