The Rohingya Crisis: Human Rights Issues, Policy Concerns and Burden Sharing

The Rohingyas have become a ‘crisis’ for all including the host countries, the international community and even for themselves. Much has been written about the clearance operation perpetrated by Myanmar military forces and vigilantes in 2017, forcing Rohingya survivors to migrate and seek refuge in other countries. How they have been surviving during the post-2017 period has largely been left out in academic literature. The Rohingya Crisis: Human Rights Issues, Policy Concerns and Burden Sharing addresses the many aspects of Rohingya lives in Bangladesh, Myanmar, India, Southeast Asian countries and in the West.  This book studies the transforming public discourse about Rohingyas, the blame-game of ecological costs of Rohingya presence, and the declining relationship between the host communities and the refugees. It examines causes for escalating intra-group conflicts, decreasing international support and the repatriation failures. It analyses the critical roles of the international community, global civil society and diaspora activism, and discusses what the future might hold. ‘Burden’ sharing should be seen as sharing responsibilities for global justice. It is not the Rohingyas who are the burden.

Table of Contents:
Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: The Rohingya Crisis—Unfolding Some Issues and Concerns - Nasir Uddin PART I: The Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh Disease and Depression among Female Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh - Alak Paul, Shaila Sharmin, Bebek Kanti Das and Mursheduzzaman Floating Voices from within: Listening to the Rohingya Victims in Bangladesh - Jenny Lamb Health Consequences of COVID-19 in Rohingyas Camps: Roles Played by NGOs - Meherun Ahmed and Syeda Kaosar Jahan Barkha Geo-environmental Changes in Rohingya Refugee Neighbourhoods: Spatiotemporal Evidences - Md. Atiqur Rahman and Alak Paul Part II: The Rohingya Refugees in India and South Asia Representation of Refugee, Migration and Displacement - Sagarika Naik The Politics of ‘Hate’: Anti-Rohingya Campaigns in Hyderabad and Jammu - Manas Dutta Situating the Rohingyas in India’s Citizenship Conundrum - Parvin Sultana Part III: The Rohingyas in Other Parts of the World Knowledge-practices of the Collective Self: The Rohingya Social Movement in Canada - Yuriko Cowper-Smith The Rohingya Crisis: Recent Bureaucratic Restructuring and Ethnic Politics in Myanmar - Syeda Naushin Parnini Myanmar’s Muslim Communities Unbound: The Rohingya and Beyond - Matteo Fumagalli Part IV: The Rohingya Crisis: Policy Issues, Global Justice and Responsibilities Sharing Roles of the International Community to Redress the Rohingya Crisis - Azeem Ibrahim ‘Situated Knowledge’: Exploring Global Civil Society Views on the Rohingya Crisis - Paul Chaney Sustainable Rohingya Repatriation in Myanmar: Some Criteria to Follow - Bayes Ahmed, Md. Touhidul Islam, Peter Sammonds, S. M. R. Arfanul Alam, Mohammad Shaheenur Alam, Anurug Chakma, Fahima Durrat and Obayedul Hoque Patwary The ‘Myth’ of Repatriation: The Prolonged Sufferings of the Rohingya - Bulbul Siddiqi Part V: New Developments Rohingya Relocation to Bhasan Char: Myths and Realities - Nasir Uddin Index

About the Author :
Nasir Uddin is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. He studied and carried out research at the University of Oxford (UK), School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at London University (UK), the London School of Economics (LSE) at London University (UK), Heidelberg University (Germany), VU Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany), Delhi School of Economics at Delhi University (India), the University of Hull (UK), Kyoto University (Japan), and the University of Dhaka (Bangladesh). He has received prestigious awards and fellowships including the MEXT Scholarship, the British Academy Visiting Scholarship, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, a Visiting Scholarship at LSE, a Visiting Fellowship at Oxford University and Asian Studies Fellowship at East-West Center, Washington, DC, USA. His latest edited book is Deterritorialised Identity and Transborder Movement in South Asia (2019, co-edited with Nasreen Chowdhory). His latest monograph is The Rohingya: An Ethnography of ‘Subhuman’ Life (2020).