Framing statelessness and ‘belonging’: Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s The Daily Star newspaper

Abstract

Stripped of Myanmarese citizenship in 1982 and persecuted for three decades, stateless Rohingya have long found precarious refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh. This study explores the framing of the Rohingya in Bangladesh’s largest circulating English language newspaper The Daily Star, to examine how one of the nation’s most prominent newspapers of record framed refugee migration into the country. Analysing two distinct random samples of news stories published on The Daily Star website between 1 December 2011– 31 November 2012 and 1 August 2017–31 October 2017, this article argues that The Daily Star’s press identity, defined though a nationalist frame, failed to successfully deliver human rights-based journalism though a globalist Fourth Estate imperative.

Marginalized and Misunderstood: How Anti-Rohingya Language Policies Fuel Genocide

“…Ali Siddiquee ( 2019 ) writes that recent atrocities against the Rohingya have been carried out “through the tactics of post-truth politics,” including the willful spreading of misinformation, appeals to emotions and personal beliefs rather than established facts, and a constant repetition of core motifs. The situation is strikingly similar in Bangladesh, where analysis of The Daily Star newspaper shows the “othering” of the Rohingya using three fundamental frame sets: the Rohingya as an impediment to Bangladeshi prosperity, as victims, and as intruders on Bangladeshi sovereignty (Ubayasiri 2019 , pp. 265–266).…”

Securitization of the Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh

“…Media have also played a crucial role, as regulatory instruments, in constructing threat images of the Rohingya refugees by regularly framing the news from a security lens. For example, Bangladesh’s most circulated English newspaper, The Daily Star’s coverage of the Rohingya news has broadly manifested the Rohingya refugees as “intruders,” “social contagion,” “threat to law and order and national security,” and “reputational damage to Bangladeshi state identity” (Ubayasiri, 2019: 270). Although the placement of these types of news is consistent with the wider narrative of Rohingyas’ alleged involvement in anti-social and criminal activities (Ubayasiri, 2019: 272), it portrays the refugees as a national security threat and fuels concerns and anxiety among the public.…”

“…For example, Bangladesh’s most circulated English newspaper, The Daily Star’s coverage of the Rohingya news has broadly manifested the Rohingya refugees as “intruders,” “social contagion,” “threat to law and order and national security,” and “reputational damage to Bangladeshi state identity” (Ubayasiri, 2019: 270). Although the placement of these types of news is consistent with the wider narrative of Rohingyas’ alleged involvement in anti-social and criminal activities (Ubayasiri, 2019: 272), it portrays the refugees as a national security threat and fuels concerns and anxiety among the public. At the same time, Sheikh Hasina’s government and political elites have used their power and position to securitize the Rohingya refugee issue by characterizing the nature of the threat through discursive tools, and by seeking to reduce the threat through the adoption of non-discursive securitizing practices.…”

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