Bangladesh, July 20 -- In a world that proclaims human rights as universal, what does it mean that entire peoples are rendered legally nonexistent-human beings for whom, as Hannah Arendt put it, “no law exists”? This essay turns to Johann Gottlieb Fichtes philosophy of recognition to argue that the Rohingya are not only victims of a humanitarian disaster, but the site of a deeper metaphysical crisis: a systematic refusal of juridical personhood that exposes statelessness as a negation of the very conditions of moral agency. By reading Fichte alongside Arendts “right to have rights,” the article reveals how Myanmars 1982 Citizenship Law transforms the Rohingya into the limit case of the modern moral world order and ...