The Rohingya: statelessness, refugeehood and a 'subhuman' life

The Rohingyas, an ethno-linguistic and religious minority of Myanmar known as the most persecuted group of people in the world, experienced an unprecedented atrocity in 2017 perpetrated by Myanmar security forces and vigilantes which drew global attention.

Today the Rohingyas are 'struggling for existence' in Bangladesh; they have an obscured past, critical present and uncertain future. They belong to no state: Myanmar stripped of their citizenship four decades ago and Bangladesh does not recognize them even as refugees. Given this context, this talk based on empirical evidence presents research on the current state of Rohingya in the Borderland of Bangladesh and Myanmar within the broader spectrum of statelessness, refugeehood and 'subhuman' life.