Overview
- Analyzes the politics of identity from the perspective of the people instead of media and government reports
- Addresses topics new to the discussion of the Rohingya refugee community, such as memories, cultural life, and non-conventional resistance
- Appeals to scholars and students examining issues of forced migration, refugee studies, Southeast Asian international relations, and ethnic politics.
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This book provides a critical analysis of the Rohingya refugees’ identity building processes and how this is closely linked to the state-building process of Myanmar as well as issues of marginalization, statelessness, forced migration, exile life, and resistance of an ethnic minority. With a focus on the ethnic minority’s life at the Myanmar-Bangladesh border, the author demonstrates how the state itself is involved in the construction of identity, which it manipulates for its own political purposes. The study is based on original research, largely drawn from fieldwork data. It presents an alternative and endogenous interpretation of the problem in contrast to the exogenous narrative espoused by state institutions, non-governmental organizations, and the media.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Kazi Fahmida Farzana is Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Affairs at the University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Memories of Burmese Rohingya Refugees
Book Subtitle: Contested Identity and Belonging
Authors: Kazi Fahmida Farzana
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58360-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58619-3Published: 25 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95444-5Published: 05 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58360-4Published: 24 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 262
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Migration, Asian Politics, Political Sociology, Asian Culture, Social History