M. Mahruf C. Shohel
The Rohingya is a stateless minority group in Myanmar, suffering from ethnic and religious armed conflicts, state persecution, and displacement. Since the escalation of violent conflicts in the early 2010s, they have fled the country and sought refuge in neighbouring countries, and in the biggest nu...
Anas Ansar, Abu Faisal Md. Khaled
Abstract Bangladesh sets an admirable example of solidarity with the Rohingya refugees from Myanmar by hosting more than a million Rohingyas despite its resource constraints. However, there is a perceptible shift from this rather unconditional solidarity to an anti-refugee sentiment. In evaluating t...
Simon Dein, Malcolm Alexander, A. David Napier
This study examines understandings of misfortune among east London Bangladeshis, particularly with respect to the role of jinn spirits. It reports on the findings of ethnographic interviews among 40 members of this community. Appeal to jinn explanations is commonplace at times of psychological distu...
Anthony Ware, Costas Laoutides
Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims have been subject to human rights abuses, been denied citizenship, and most recently, faced ethnic cleansing. Well over half the Rohingya population who use to live in Myanmar have been displaced by violence, with over a million Rohingya refugees now sheltering in Banglade...
Maung Zarni, Alice Cowley
I. INTRODUCTIONWhat can we do, Brother, they (the Rohingya) are too many? We can't kill them all. Ex-Brigadier General, formerly stationed in Arakan or Rakhine State, and Ambassador to Brunei, Fall, 2012.1How can it be ethnic cleansing? They are not an ethnic Mr. Win Myaing, the official spokesperso...
Shapan Adnan
Jason Cons
Md Mahbubul Haque
The Rohingyas have experienced difficulties in obtaining citizenship since the enactment of the 1982 Citizenship Law in Burma. From the beginning of Burmese independence, their separate identity was recognized by the then democratic government of Premier U Nu (1948–1962). Their situation worsened af...
Syeda Naushin Parnini, Mohammad Redzuan Othman, Amer Saifude Ghazali
The Rohingya refugee crisis is a contentious issue that has strained Myanmar-Bangladesh relations since the late 1970s. The Rohingya crisis emanated from the military junta's widespread violations of human rights in Myanmar against the Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine. Rendered stateless, the Rohingyas f...
Emily Ying Yang Chan, Cheuk Pong Chiu, Gloria Chan
Complex emergencies remain major threats to human well-being in the 21st century. More than 300000 Rohingya people from Myanmar, one of the most forgotten minorities globally, have fled to neighboring countries over the past decades. In the recent crisis, the sudden influx of Rohingya people over a ...
Jasmin Lorch
While the literature on democratic backsliding has not yet systematically investigated how civil society influences backsliding processes, it generally assumes that civil society organizations (CSOs) act as a counter to democratic backsliding. This article contests this assumption by showing that, d...
Hema Letchamanana
The Rohingya, a persecuted minority, has faced decades of harsh treatment and made stateless by the military government in Myanmar.To escape from this severe repression, most Rohingya flee to Bangladesh, Thailand or Malaysia.In Malaysia, this community has been living invisibly for more than three d...
Chien-peng Chung
This article focuses on South Asia's role in China's Maritime Silk Road (MSR) initiative. Given the saliency of this MSR enterprise as part of ChinesePresident Xi Jinping’s “One-Belt-One-Road” strategy, how this ambitious scheme impacts China’s relations with South Asian states along the MSR’s route...
Alvin Kuowei Tay, Susan Rees, Mohammed Abdul Awal Miah, Sanjida Khan et al.
A major challenge in the refugee field is to ensure that scarce mental health resources are directed to those in greatest need. Based on data from an epidemiological survey of 959 adult Rohingya refugees in Malaysia (response rate: 83%), we examine whether a brief screening instrument of functional ...
Archana Parashar, Jobair Alam
Abstract This article examines the legal status of the Rohingya in Myanmar by analysing relevant constitutional provisions (of 1947, 1974 and 2008) and other major citizenship legislations including the Citizenship Law, 1982. A doctrinal analysis demonstrates that: (i) the earlier Constitutions and ...
Sahana Ghosh
ABSTRACT India's militarization of its border with Bangladesh has grown alongside a paranoia around the figure of the “infiltrator” made synonymous with the “Bangladeshi illegal migrant.” Set in the borderlands of India and Bangladesh, where ethnic, racial, and linguistic markers do not allow for an...
Abhishek Bhatia, Ayesha S. Mahmud, Arlan Fuller, Rebecca Shin et al.
The Rohingya people of Myanmar have been subject to human rights violations through government-sponsored discrimination and violence. Since August 2017, an intensified assault by Myanmar authorities has resulted in a rapid increase of Rohingya pouring into Bangladesh, and the expansion of refugee se...
Rohini J. Haar, Karen Wang, Homer Venters, Satu Salonen et al.
BACKGROUND: Decades of persecution culminated in a statewide campaign of organized, systematic, and violent eviction of the Rohingya people by the Myanmar government beginning in August 2017. These attacks included the burning of homes and farms, beatings, shootings, sexual violence, summary executi...
Shamima Akhter, Kyoko Kusakabe
The Rohingya, a Muslim minority group from the northern part of Rakhine State (formerly Arakan) in Myanmar, is among the most vulnerable of the world’s refugee communities. This study aims to shed light on gender-based violence among documented Rohingya refugees living in the Kutupalong camp located...
Foreword Preface Introduction by Gerard A. Postiglione Bangladesh by Kowsar P. Chowdhury Cambodia by Thomas Clayton and Yuok Ngoy China by Weifang Min Hong Kong by Gerard A. Postiglione and Grace C. L. Mak India by N. Jayaram Indonesia by William Cummings, Manasse Malo, and Kamanto Sunarto Iran by G...