Reshaping Rohingya Futures

This edited book presents many hitherto unaddressed aspects of post-genocide Rohingya lives in refugee camps in Bangladesh. Amid an everyday struggle for daily essentials, violent tensions within and outside the camps, growing anti-Rohingya sentiment in the host community as well as the decreasing international support during the repatriation process, Rohingya adolescents and youths show strategies of coping and agency to alter their present and reshape their future. An upsurge in digital literacy, mounting transnational connectivity, growing engagement with diaspora Rohingya activism and a cumulative presence in social media for sentiment mobilisation on a local and global scale has motivated them to bring about change for themselves and their community within the camps. This book accommodates such fresh and high-quality research on the Rohingya refugees living in the borderland of Bangladesh and Myanmar, conducted by acclaimed academics, professional researchers, and committed activists from across the world, for researchers and students of migration, sociology of race and ethnicity, anthropology, diaspora studies, peace and conflict studies and social work.

Explores hitherto unaddressed aspects of post-genocide Rohingya lives in Bangladesh's camps Sheds light on resilience, survival strategies and coping mechanisms of Rohingya living in camps Focuses on the agency of Rohingya adolescents and youth, such as digital activism and transnational networks

Autorentext

Nasir Uddin is a cultural anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. He is the author of The Rohingya: An Ethnography of 'Subhuman' Life (2020) and Voices of the Rohingya People: A Case of Genocide, Ethnocide and 'Subhuman' Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). He is the editor of The Rohingya Crisis: Human Rights Issue, Policy Concerns and Burden Sharing (2022) and Scattered Life of 'Stateless People': The Rohingya in SAARC and ASEAN Countries (forthcoming).

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction - How are the Rohingya Reshaping their Futures? Exploring Agencies to Reach Yet Blurred Vision.- Part A: Saga of Refugee Life, Social Exclusion and Livelihood Access.- Chapter 2: Can the Rohingya Refugee Crisis be Solved Sustainably? Addressing Environmental Concerns in Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar.- Chapter 3: Manipulated Interpreting with Donor Delegates at Rohingya Refugee Camps.- Chapter 4: A Lifelong Saga of Forced Migration and Livelihood Access to Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh.- Chapter 5: Comparing Three Rohingya Camps in Bangladesh: Social Exclusion and Survival Strategies.- Part B: Lost Generation, Militancy, and Digital Activis.- Chapter 6: A Bid at Inclusion: Rohingya Youth Digital Activism Against Gendered Violence as Global Governance Localization.- Chapter 7: Agency of the Refugees in Camp Governance: Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh.- Chapter 8: Paternalising Rohingya Refugees to Undermine their Agency: An Analysis of UNHCR Field Mission in Bangladesh.- Part C: Vulnerability, Resilience, and Emerging Agencies.- Chapter 9: Everyday Struggle and Emerging Agencies in Camp Life: The Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh.- Chapter 10: Resilience, Resistance, Agency, and Liminality: What Aids in Re-imagining the Rohingya Future.- Chapter 11: Myanmar's Recent Political Crisis: Its Effects on Bangladesh's Rohingya Refugee Issues.- Chapter 12: Conclusion - Points to Ponder the Futures of the Rohingya and their Crises.