The 2017 persecution of the Rohingyas resulted in around a million Rohingyas fleeing to Bangladesh, India and Malaysia.
This book investigates the complex challenges of managing the large-scale refugee exodus in Bangladesh and how best to resolve these challenges in the future. Using a mixed-method approach that includes a survey, key informant interviews and numerous short case studies of persecution, the authors also examine the problematic influence of the media, as local depictions of Rohingya refugees often caused further tension and division in the midst of the refugee crisis. The book’s analysis offers a deeper understanding of the causes and drivers of identity-based politics among Myanmar’s Rohingya.
Table of Content
1. The Rohingya Human Rights Crisis
2. A Theoretical Understanding of Rohingyas and Rohingyas in the Media
3. The Path to Refuge: Ethnicity, Politics, Religion, and Global Order
4. Dispossession and Displacement: The Crisis and Media Influence
5. Final Destinations and Policy Implications
About the author
Diotima Chattoraj is an Adjunct Research Fellow in the School of Social and Health Sciences at James Cook University, Singapore.