Forced Migration of Rohingya: An Untold Experience

Habib, Mohshin; Jubb, Christine; Ahmad, Salahuddin; Rahman, Masudur; Pallard, Henri

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“…The Rohingya people, a stateless minority group of Myanmar, are the most persecuted population in the world by the government of its own country. 1 Historically, this persecution started in 1942 and flared up in 1945, immediately after Myanmar achieved independence from the UK. 2 In 1977, the Rohingya people were identified as migrated labourers who had come from Bangladesh and India and were considered to be living in Myanmar illegally.…”

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HIV transmission knowledge among Rohingya refugee women in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional survey

Khan

Rahman

et al. 2021

BMJ Open

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Background and objectiveIncreasing numbers of Rohingya refugees have been found to be infected with HIV since they arrived in Bangladesh after being ousted from Myanmar in 2017. This study aimed to examine the knowledge about HIV transmission among Rohingya refugee women and to identify factors that are associated with that knowledge.DesignA cross-sectional survey was conducted using a structured questionnaire that was based on the standard questionnaire of the Demographic and Health Survey programme.SettingRohingya settlements in the Kutupalong refugee camp at Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.ParticipantsInterviews were conducted with 508 women who had married or given birth in the 2 years before the survey was done.Outcome measureThe participants were asked to answer a set of questions to assess their knowledge about HIV transmission.ResultsAround 70% of the women could not accurately answer four of the eight questions, and there were substantial misconceptions about the modes of HIV transmission. Knowledge regarding HIV transmission among participants increases in conjunction with the age at which they were first married. Women who were involved in work outside their households or those whose husbands were employed were more likely than others to demonstrate relatively good knowledge of transmission. Women who had received some formal education were 2.37 times likely to show relatively good knowledge of HIV transmission than those who had not received any education. Availability of healthcare facilities in the blocks where women resided is also associated with better knowledge. However, knowledge of HIV transmission among Rohingya women was significantly lower than among women in Bangladesh and Myanmar.ConclusionMost Rohingya women have inadequate knowledge of HIV transmission. Targeted interventions are needed to provide HIV education and to assist with prevention and behavioural changes.

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HIV transmission knowledge among Rohingya refugee women in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional survey

Khan

Rahman

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BMJ Open

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“…65 More than 730,000 Rohingya, including over 400,000 children, fled violence in Myanmar and settled in Cox's Bazar District, Bangladesh. Of these 400,000, there are an inconclusive number of unaccompanied or orphaned children, with one report suggesting over 6,000 unaccompanied children 66 and another suggesting that one in four Rohingya children are orphaned. 67 In Myanmar, 600,000 Rohingya continue to face significant challenges, including lack of freedom of movement, discrimination and limited access to basic services.…”

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“…Adult Rohingya camp residents report systematic discrimination in Myanmar, particularly in accessing health and education. 72 One can hypothesize that such experiences influence how health and mental health providers are viewede.g., as benign or persecutoryand thus have an impact on the community's helpseeking behaviour, their relationship to mental health provisions, and their acceptance of support. As such, recognizing the impact of historical oppression and persecution, and the acute traumatic experiences of torture, genocide, gender-based violence, and subsequent migration to and residence in the camps, is crucial to understanding mental distress and how services are accessed, accepted or even understood.…”

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Living through war: Mental health of children and youth in conflict-affected areas

Frounfelker¹,

Islam²,

Falcone³

et al. 2019

Int. rev. Red Cross

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Children in armed conflict are frequently deprived of basic needs, psychologically supportive environments, educational and vocational opportunities, and other resources that promote positive psychosocial development and mental health. This article describes the mental health challenges faced by conflict-affected children and youth, the interventions designed to prevent or ameliorate the psychosocial impact of conflict-related experiences, and a case example of the challenges and opportunities related to addressing the mental health needs of Rohingya children and youth.

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“…4 The genocide was an organised campaign by the Myanmar military in conjunction with Buddhist extremist groups, which resulted in the death of approximately 24,000 Rohingya. 5 The Myanmar military along with Buddhist extremists engaged in a scorched earth policy, torching entire Rohingya villages, engaging in mass rapes of women and girls, and indiscriminately murdering civilians. 6 According to a survey by Médecins Sans Frontières, approximately 9,400 Rohingya were murdered in Rakhine State between 25 August and 24 September 2017, with at least 730 of the victims, children.…”

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Islamophobia in Myanmar: the Rohingya genocide and the ‘war on terror’

Bakali¹

2021

Race & Class

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This article analyses the Rohingya genocide of August 2017. The accusation of genocide has been denied by the state of Myanmar, but what is demonstrated here is how the phenomenon of Islamophobia – anti-Muslim racism – informed, sanctioned and culminated in a genocide whose consequences are ongoing. Islamophobia has generally been understood to relate to the ‘othering’ of Muslims in settler societies and the nations of the global North, as documented by critical race, postcolonial and feminist scholars, with much of the current discourse on it structured around the ‘war on terror’. But increasingly, it has also come to encompass systemic racism and anti-Muslim violence in the global South, with, in Myanmar, the ‘war on terror’ used to sanitise more recent violence against the Rohingya. This article examines both structural Islamophobia, and the Islamophobia of private actors in Myanmar, in particular the powerful Buddhist extremist movement. It demonstrates that the co-dependent relationship between structural and private Islamophobia since military rule in Myanmar, in the absence of a strong and unified resistance, contributed to the genocide. Moreover, the troubling logic used to defend state-sponsored violence and killing in Myanmar bears a number of similarities to Islamophobic trajectories in other spaces of the global South in the context of the ‘war on terror’.

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Forced Migration of Rohingya: An Untold Experience

Cited by 17 publications

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HIV transmission knowledge among Rohingya refugee women in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional survey

HIV transmission knowledge among Rohingya refugee women in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional survey

Living through war: Mental health of children and youth in conflict-affected areas

Islamophobia in Myanmar: the Rohingya genocide and the ‘war on terror’

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