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The 2017 persecution of the Rohingyas resulted in around a million
Rohingyas fleeing to Bangladesh, India and Malaysia. This book
investigates the complex challenges of managing the large-scale
refugee exodus in Bangladesh and how best to resolve these
challenges in the future. Using a mixed-method approach that
includes a survey, key informant interviews and numerous short case
studies of persecution, the authors also examine the problematic
influence of the media, as local depictions of Rohingya refugees
often caused further tension and division in the midst of the
refugee crisis. The book’s analysis offers a deeper understanding
of the causes and drivers of identity-based politics among
Myanmar’s Rohingya.
Delving into the past and present of various secessionist movements
in Northeast India, political conflict in Chittagong Hill
Tracts in Bangladesh, a political movement for autonomy in
Darjeeling hills in Eastern India, and the Rohingya migration
crisis affecting India and Bangladesh, this book examines the
volatile co-existence of competing population groups in
Eastern South Asia. Through the conceptual lens of the
‘home’ and feeling of ‘homeland’ in Eastern South
Asia, the authors seek answers to three complex but
interrelated questions: why is Eastern South Asia facing so
many political movements and conflicts? How have the
political movements affected the region and people? Why is the
number of migrants in this region so high? Answers to these
questions are vital to those studying South Asia and
interested in understanding this region.
This book focuses on the concept of 'home' or 'place of origin'
(expressed in Tamil as 'Ur') and its various dimensions, in turn
related to issues of belonging, attachment, detachment, and
commonality among the war-affected population in the post-war era
of Sri Lanka. Little research has been undertaken on displacement
and forced migration since the end of the war, and so this book
provides new insight into the intersections between externally and
internally displaced people and notions of home in relation to
gender, age, caste and class. It excavates the roots of the problem
of not being able to return due to combinations of uncertainty,
unemployment, and the loss of people and property. The author shows
that notions of 'home' vary considerably depending on multiple
variables, and this is particularly pronounced between the
different generations. The book also confronts how the migration
from Sri Lanka over the border to India has brought on discernible
changes to the lives of women in particular, in transforming their
identities in multiple re-invented cultural manifestations, and
cultivating a new kind of attachment towards their new homes.
Interdisciplinary in tenor, this book will be of interest to
scholars in development studies with a focus on South Asia, as well
as graduate students and researchers in the fields of migration,
conflict studies, Sri Lanka studies, and sociology. It may also
have an impact on policymakers owing to its comprehensive,
empirically-based analysis of the consequences of the Sri Lankan
civil war for Tamils.
This book focuses on the concept of 'home' or 'place of origin'
(expressed in Tamil as 'Ur') and its various dimensions, in turn
related to issues of belonging, attachment, detachment, and
commonality among the war-affected population in the post-war era
of Sri Lanka. Little research has been undertaken on displacement
and forced migration since the end of the war, and so this book
provides new insight into the intersections between externally and
internally displaced people and notions of home in relation to
gender, age, caste and class. It excavates the roots of the problem
of not being able to return due to combinations of uncertainty,
unemployment, and the loss of people and property. The author shows
that notions of 'home' vary considerably depending on multiple
variables, and this is particularly pronounced between the
different generations. The book also confronts how the migration
from Sri Lanka over the border to India has brought on discernible
changes to the lives of women in particular, in transforming their
identities in multiple re-invented cultural manifestations, and
cultivating a new kind of attachment towards their new homes.
Interdisciplinary in tenor, this book will be of interest to
scholars in development studies with a focus on South Asia, as well
as graduate students and researchers in the fields of migration,
conflict studies, Sri Lanka studies, and sociology. It may also
have an impact on policymakers owing to its comprehensive,
empirically-based analysis of the consequences of the Sri Lankan
civil war for Tamils.
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted about 1 billion migrants (both
international and domestic) in a variety of ways, and this book
demonstrates how COVID-19 has widened the gaps between citizens,
non-migrant and migrant populations in terms of income, job
retention, freedom of movement, vaccine etc.While there is an
emerging literature studying the impacts of COVID-19 on migration,
the situation in Southeast Asia has not received much scholarly
attention. This book fills the literature gap by studying the
experiences of migrants and citizens in Brunei, Malaysia and
Singapore and highlighting how the pandemic has exacerbated
inequalities between and within the groups. These three countries
are studied due to their high reliance of migrants in key economic
sectors. Findings in this volume are derived from a qualitative
approach, complemented by secondary data sources.This book is
appropriate for undergraduate and postgraduate students of
population studies, epidemiology, political science, public policy
and administration, international relations, anthropology,
psychology, sociology, and migration and refugee studies. Migration
and labour scholars benefit from the nuanced comprehension about
how a pandemic could cause a schism between migrants and the
population at large. Policymakers may consider the proposed
recommendations in the book to improve the migration situation.
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