This book presents thirteen chapters which probe the “tales less told” and “pathways less traveled” in refugee camp living. Rohingya camps in Bangladesh since August 2017 supply these “tales” and “pathways”. They dwell upon/reflect camp violence, sexual/gender discrimination, intersectionality, justice, the sudden COVID camp entry, human security, children education, innovation, and relocation plans. Built largely upon field trips, these narratives interestingly interweave with both theoretical threads (hypotheses) and tapestries (net-effects), feeding into the security-driven pulls of political realism, or disseminating from humanitarian-driven socioeconomic pushes, but mostly combining them. Post-ethnic cleansing and post-exodus windows open up a murky future for Rohingya and global refugees. We learn of positive offshoots (of camp innovations exposing civil society relevance) and negative (like human and sex trafficking beyond Bangladeshi and Myanmar borders), as of navigating (a) local–global linkages of every dynamic and (b) fast-moving current circumstances against stoic historical leftovers.
Author(s): Imtiaz A. Hussain
Series: Global Political Transitions
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 330
City: Cham
Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Tables
1 Forget-Me-Nots from Rohingya Camps: Dark Experiences and Tales Not Told
Introduction
On the Roads Less Traveled
Empirical Setting
Deprived Citizenship, Camp Tags, and Charity Fatigue
Theoretical Framework
Warfare, Welfare, or Whatever-one-calls the Gray Zone?
Transitions
Findings and Hypotheses
Bibliography
2 Ethnicity, Identity, and Rohingya Security: At the ‘Olive Tree’–‘Lexus’ Crossroads
Prologue1
Trapped by a Name
Rohingya Identity
Riddle One: Rohingya Ancestry
Riddle Two: British Colonial Period: 1824–1948
Riddle Three: Post-Independence Displacement from Marginalisation (1948–Present)
Unriddling the Maze: Terrorism & Insecure Security
International Community Role: The Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
Olive Tree as Identity: Lexus as Greed
Terrorism: Statelessness as a Catalyst
Conclusion
Bibliography
3 Rohingya Conundrum: Cutting the Gordian Knot?
Introduction
Setting the Stage
Rohingyas: Who? Origins?
Nationhood Sense?
Spillovers
Measures Within Original Host Bodies: Success/Failure?
Geopolitical Rumbles
Measures in Diaspora Country/ies
Outlook for the Future
Bibliography
4 The Political Economy of Religion and Security: Tracing Rohingya Camp Violence
Introduction
The identity that is Rohingya: The Making of a Refugee
Exclusionary Process
Genesis of Rakhine Religion and Conflict: An Account of Exclusion and Alienation
The Religion-Politics Nexus: Competing Ethno-Religious Ideologies
Political Economy of Religion in the Rohingya Refugee Camps: Why the Camps Often Turn Into A Violent Place?
Conclusion: The Camps and the Future of the Rohingyas
5 From Disorganized Hypocrisy to Political Neo-medievalism: Rohingya Crises in Bangladesh
Introduction
Theoretical Premise: From Disorganized Hypocrisy to Political Neo-medievalism
Contending Sovereignty Explanations
History of Rohingya Influx in Bangladesh
Qualitative Differences Between the 2017 and Previous Influxes: Geopolitical Interplay and Structural Vacuum
Conclusion
Bibliography
6 Identity, Intersectionality and Refugees in Cox’s Bazaar: Remaking Rohingyas?
Introduction
Intersectionality of Identity/ies
Myanmar Rohingyas Identity-making: Historicizing Politics, Culture, & Society
Rohingya Re-making in Bangladesh: Selective Host Community/ies Views
Ferociousness
Unruliness
Poverty and Greed
Low-Wage Labor
Rohingya Women & Local Marriage
Disease Vectors
Insecurities
Drug-dealing
Discussions & Conclusions
Bibliography
7 Sexual/Gender-Based Camp Violence and Institutional Response Limits: Rohingyas in Bangladesh
Introduction
Study Methodology & Introduction of the Case
Intersecting SGBV Patterns in Rohingya Camps
Existing Institutional Responses and Counter-SGBV Limits
Concluding Comments
Appendix
Data Collection and Selection
Bibliography
8 Vulnerability and Humanitarian Emergencies: Fate of Rohingya Women Amid Covid-19
Background
Theoretical Framework
Research Question
Gender & Vulnerability in the Context of COVID-19 Crisis
Engendering Security
Conclusion
Bibliography
9 Rohingya Refugees and Human Security: Foreign Policy Reform Needs
Introduction
Bangladesh’s Foreign Policy
Human Security Context
The Rohingya Refugee Crisis: Bangladesh’s Human Security Issue
‘Human Security’ Importance in Foreign Policy
A Comparative Approach
Problems in the Human Security Framework
Conclusion
Bibliography
10 Rohingya Refugee-Camp Innovations: Reinvigorating Humanitarianism
Puzzle
Puzzle in a Theory
Empirical Evaluation: Rohingya Refugees, 2017–2020
Analytical Transformation
Puzzle, Theory, & Governance
Concluding Thoughts
Bibliography
11 Rohingya Refugees and Classroom Children: Cultivating a Lost Generation
Introduction
Literary Review
Education Dimensions of Humanitarian Response
Indigenous Knowledge (IK), EiE & the ‘Lost Generation’
Education in Emergency (EiE): Cox Bazaar’s Rohingyas
Theoretical Model & the Rohingya Refugees Case
Key Concepts
Discussions
Conclusion
Bibliography
12 Rohingya Refugee Future: Narratives from History, Memory, & Relocation
Introduction
Purposes and Organization
Habiburahman, Rohingya Voices, Role of Memory
Political Aspects of Displacement
Political Move, Memory Claims, & Refugeehood32
Bhashan Char, Relocation, & the Rohingyas Future
Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
13 Rohingya Circle: Left Unbroken, Squared, or to Evaporate?
Findings
Camp Takeaways
Index
