Abstract Long-term migration is one of the most important factors in the formation of cultural identities in the modern world. Immigrant communities are usually studied in the context of the country people have migrated to; Katy Gardner, however, looks at the neglected `sending' side of the equation...
Andrew Riley, Andrea Varner, Peter Ventevogel, M. M. Taimur Hasan et al.
The Rohingya of Myanmar are a severely persecuted minority who form one of the largest groups of stateless people; thousands of them reside in refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh. There has been little research into the mental health consequences of persecution, war, and other historical trauma...
AKM Ahsan Ullah
Rohingya refugees from the Arakan state of Myanmar found their ways a number of times to Bangladesh to escape state-sponsored persecution. While there is no dearth of studies on refugees, Rohingya has so far received very little research attention. This article tries to understand the dynamics and s...
Abul Hasnat Milton, Md Mijanur Rahman, Sumaira Hussain, Charulata Jindal et al.
The Rohingya people are one of the most ill-treated and persecuted refugee groups in the world, having lived in a realm of statelessness for over six generations, and who are still doing so. In recent years, more than 500,000 Rohingyas fled from Myanmar (Burma) to neighboring countries. This article...
Lisa Sharlach
According to the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of an ethnic, national, or religious group and/or ''deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction ...
Alvin Kuowei Tay, Andrew Riley, Md. Rafiqul Islam, Courtney Welton‐Mitchell et al.
AIMS: Despite the magnitude and protracted nature of the Rohingya refugee situation, there is limited information on the culture, mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of this group. This paper, drawing on a report commissioned by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), aims to...
Mohammad Mehedy Hassan, Audrey Culver Smith, Katherine Walker, Munshi Khaledur Rahman et al.
Following a targeted campaign of violence by Myanmar military, police, and local militias, more than half a million Rohingya refugees have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since August 2017, joining thousands of others living in overcrowded settlement camps in Teknaf. To accommodate this mass influx o...
Shaun Truelove, Orit Abrahim, Chiara Altare, Stephen A. Lauer et al.
BACKGROUND: COVID-19 could have even more dire consequences in refugees camps than in general populations. Bangladesh has confirmed COVID-19 cases and hosts almost 1 million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, with 600,000 concentrated in the Kutupalong-Balukhali Expansion Site (mean age, 21 years; stan...
Nayanika Mookherjee
This article explores the processes through which the ‘public secrecy’ of rape during the Bangladesh war of 1971 operates within the present‐day ethnographic context. It examines contemporary commemorations of the war and of women who have achieved local and national fame as rape victims (euphemisti...
Preface Contributors Introduction Part I. Conceptual and Historical Perspectives: 1. Rethinking security: a critical review and appraisal of the debate Muthiah Alagappa 2. International politics in Asia: the historical context Muthiah Alagappa Part II. Security Practice: Country Studies: 3. China: s...
Reece Jones
The narratives of fear and uncertainty from the discourse of the ‘global war on terror’ have been used by many governments to expand securitization processes. As more aggressive security tactics have been deployed, scholars have sought to understand the changing relationship between individual right...
Ian M. Taplin
Purpose – This paper seeks to examine the various actors responsible for the recent tragedy at a clothing factory in Bangladesh. Rather than focusing on the actual factory owner, it evaluates the broader structural and institutional factors, plus a particular Western retailer strategy of fast fashio...
M. J. Gillan
For South Asia, it is axiomatic that the experience of nation state formation and notions of national identity for three nations within the region (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) have been accompanied and conditioned by the mass movement of displaced peoples. In the case of Bangladesh, a violent ca...
Syeda Naushin Parnini
The Muslim Rohingya crisis has been disrupting the bilateral relations between Myanmar and Bangladesh since the late 1970s. This paper explores the crisis of Rohingya as a Muslim minority in Myanmar and their forced migration to Bangladesh where they took refuge causing disputes between Bangladesh a...
Mahua Sarkar