Rohingyasinsecurity And Citizenship In Myanmar

Author : Trevor Gibson,Helen James & Lindsay Falvey
Publisher : Thaksin University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789744740526

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RohingyasInsecurity and Citizenship in Myanmar by Trevor Gibson,Helen James & Lindsay Falvey Pdf

The Rohingyas, a Muslim minority group living in the Rakhine State in western Myanmar (Burma) have been denied citizenship, which has made them insecure in their homelands. Many have fled persecution and limitations on basic rights, their plight being highlighted in international media. This book presents new information about the nexus between citizenship and insecurity, and concludes that full citizenship would accord with the UN and other international conventions. Granting of citizenship rights as prescribed by the 2008 Union of Myanmar Constitution is seen as essential to the alleviation of insecurity and suffering of the Rohingyas. As elsewhere, the benefits of citizenship come the obligations to abide by the law of the land. This book is therefore a contribution to Myanmar’s modernization program of integrating all of its peoples.

Author : Ashley South
Publisher : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814786225

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Citizenship in Myanmar by Ashley South Pdf

Myanmar is going through a period of profound - and contested - transition. The country has experienced widespread if sometimes uneven reforms, including the start of a peace process between the government and Myanmar Army, and some two dozen ethnic armed organizations, which had long been fighting for greater autonomy from the militarized and Burman-dominated state. This book brings together chapters by Burmese and foreign experts, and contributions from community and political leaders, who discuss the meaning of citizenship in Myanmar/Burma. The book explores citizenship in relation to three broad categories: issues of identity and conflict; debates around concepts and practices of citizenship; and inter- and intra-community issues, including Buddhist-Muslim relations. This is the first volume to address these issues, understanding and resolving which will be central to Myanmar's continued transition away from violence and authoritarianism.

Author : Justine Chambers,Charlotte Galloway,Jonathan Liljeblad
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814881050

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Living with Myanmar by Justine Chambers,Charlotte Galloway,Jonathan Liljeblad Pdf

Since 2011 Myanmar has experienced many changes to its social, political and economic landscape. The formation of a new government in 2016, led by the National League for Democracy, was a crucially important milestone in the country’s transition to a more inclusive form of governance. And yet, for many people everyday struggles remain unchanged, and have often worsened in recent years. Key economic, social and political reforms are stalled, conflict persists and longstanding issues of citizenship and belonging remain. The wide-ranging, myriad and multiple challenges of Living with Myanmar is the subject of this volume. Following the Myanmar Update series tradition, each of the authors offers a different perspective on the sociopolitical and economic mutations occurring in the country and the challenges that still remain. The book is divided into six sections and covers critical issues ranging from gender equality and identity politics, to agrarian reform and the representative role of parliament. Collectively, these voices raise key questions concerning the institutional legacies of military rule and their ongoing role in subverting the country’s reform process. However, they also offer insights into the creative and productive ways that Myanmar’s activists, civil society, parliamentarians, bureaucrats and everyday people attempt to engage with and reform those legacies.

Author : Azeem Ibrahim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849049832

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The Rohingyas by Azeem Ibrahim Pdf

According to the United Nations, Myanmar's Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Only now has the media turned its attention to their plight at the hands of a country led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Yet the signs of this genocide have been visible for years. For generations, this Muslim group has suffered routine discrimination, violence, arbitrary arrest and detention, extortion, and other abuses by the Buddhist majority. As horrifying massacres have unfolded in 2017, international human rights groups have accused the regime of complicity in an ethnic cleansing campaign against them. Authorities refuse to recognise the Rohingyas as one of Myanmar's 135 "national races," denying them citizenship rights in the country of their birth and severely restricting many aspects of ordinary life, from marriage to free movement. In this updated edition, Azeem Ibrahim chronicles the events leading up to the current, final cleansing of the Rohingya population, and issues a clarion call to protect a vulnerable, little known Muslim minority. He makes a powerful appeal to use the lessons of the twentieth century to stop this genocide in the twenty-first.

Author : Anthony Ware,Costas Laoutides
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190928865

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Myanmar's 'Rohingya' Conflict by Anthony Ware,Costas Laoutides Pdf

The plight of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims has made international news in recent years. Reports of genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity are commonplace. The Rohingyas have been denied citizenship and are widely discriminated against. Hundreds of thousands have been internally displaced by violence, or have sought refuge in neighbouring or friendly Muslim countries. This conflict has become a litmus test for change in this country in transition, and current assessments are far from positive. Whitewashing by the military, and a refusal by Aung San Suu Kyi's government to even use the name 'Rohingya', adds to international scepticism. Exploring this long-running tripartite conflict between the Rohingya, Rakhine and Burman ethnic groups, this book offers a new analysis of the complexities of the conflict: the fears and motivations driving it and the competition to control historical representations and collective memory. By questioning these competing narratives, offering detailed sociopolitical analysis and examining the international dimensions of the conflict, this book offers new insights into what is preventing a peaceful resolution to this intractable conflict.

Author : AKM Ahsan Ullah,Diotima Chattoraj
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529231366

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The Unheard Stories of the Rohingyas by AKM Ahsan Ullah,Diotima Chattoraj Pdf

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.

Author : Dev Nath Pathak,Biswajit Das,Ratan Kumar Roy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000563573

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Seeing South Asia by Dev Nath Pathak,Biswajit Das,Ratan Kumar Roy Pdf

This book critically examines the cultural politics of visuals in South Asia. It makes a key contribution to the study of visuals in the social sciences in South Asia by studying the interplay of the seen and unseen, and the visual and nonvisual. The volume explores interrelated themes including the vernacular visual and visuality, ways of seeing in South Asia and the methodology of hermeneutic sensorium, anxiety and politics of the visuals across the region and the trajectory of visual anthropology, significance of visual symbols and representations in contemporary performances and folk art, visual landscapes of loss and recovery and representation of refugees, visual public in South Asia and making of visuals for contemporary consumptions. The chapters unravel the concepts of visual, visibility, visuality while attending to determinant meta-ideas, such as memory and modernity, trajectories of tradition, fluidity and hybridity, and visual performative politics. Based on interdisciplinary resources, the chapters in this volume present a wide array of empirical findings across India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh, along with analytical readings of the visual culture of the subcontinent across borders. The book will be useful to scholars and researchers of visual and cultural studies, social and cultural anthropology, sociology, political studies, media and communications studies, performance studies, art history, television and film studies, photography studies, and South Asian studies. It will also interest practitioners including artists, visual artists, photographers, filmmakers and media critics.

Author : Kazi Fahmida Farzana
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137583604

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Memories of Burmese Rohingya Refugees by Kazi Fahmida Farzana Pdf

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.

Author : Moshe Yegar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Muslims
ISBN : UOM:39015051850082

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The Muslims of Burma by Moshe Yegar Pdf

Author : Moshe Yegar
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0739103563

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Between Integration and Secession by Moshe Yegar Pdf

Between Integration and Secession asks whether Muslim minorities can co-exist with the majority and other cultures within non-Muslim states. Moshe Yegar's excellent new work examines the radicalization of Muslim communities during the nationalist fervor that swept southeast Asia in the aftermath of World War II. The book's grand historical scope traces the theological and political impact of the postwar Islamic renaissance on the creation of Muslim separatist tendencies and heightened religious consciousness. Drawing on a wealth of archival and secondary sources, Yegar examines three cases of rebellion in Muslim minorities: in the Philippines, in Thailand, and in Burma/Myanmar. He studies the communities' struggle to define their aims-be it for communal separation, autonomy, or independence-and the means each has at their disposal to achieve them.

Author : Paul J. Carnegie,Victor T. King,Zawawi Ibrahim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811022456

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Human Insecurities in Southeast Asia by Paul J. Carnegie,Victor T. King,Zawawi Ibrahim Pdf

This book is a collection of work by scholars currently pursuing research on human security and insecurities in Southeast Asia. It deals with a set of ‘insecurities’ that is not readily understood or measurable. As such, it conceptually locates the threats and impediments to ‘human security’ within relationships of risk, uncertainty, safety and trust. At the same time, it presents a wide variety of investigations and approaches from both localized and regional perspectives. By focusing on the human and relational dimensions of insecurities in Southeast Asia it highlights the ways in which vulnerable and precarious circumstances (human insecurities) are part of daily life for large numbers of people in Southeast Asia and are mainly beyond their immediate control. Many of the situations people experience in Southeast Asia represent the real outcomes of a range of largely unacknowledged socio-cultural-economic transformations interlinked by local, national, regional and global forces, factors and interests. Woven from experience and observations of life at various sites in Southeast Asia, the contributions in this volume give an internal and critical perspective to a complex and manifold issue. They draw attention to a variety of the less-than-obvious threats to human security and show how perplexing those threats can be. All of which underscores the significance of multidisciplinary approaches in rethinking and responding to the complex array of conditioning factors and interests underlying human insecurities in Southeast Asia.

Author : Shayna Bauchner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Burma
ISBN : OCLC:1201257921

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"An Open Prison Without End" by Shayna Bauchner Pdf

"[This report] documents the inhuman conditions in the 24 camps and camp-like settings in central Rakhine State."--Publisher website.

Author : Asbjørn Dyrendal,David G. Robertson,Egil Asprem
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004382022

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Handbook of Conspiracy Theory and Contemporary Religion by Asbjørn Dyrendal,David G. Robertson,Egil Asprem Pdf

The Handbook of Conspiracy Theories and Contemporary Religion is the first collection to offer a comprehensive overview of conspiracy theories and their relationship with religion(s), taking a global and interdisciplinary perspective.

Author : Francis Wade
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783605309

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Myanmar's Enemy Within by Francis Wade Pdf

For decades Myanmar has been portrayed as a case of good citizen versus bad regime – men in jackboots maintaining a suffocating rule over a majority Buddhist population beholden to the ideals of non-violence and tolerance. But in recent years this narrative has been upended. In June 2012, violence between Buddhists and Muslims erupted in western Myanmar, pointing to a growing divide between religious communities that before had received little attention from the outside world. Attacks on Muslims soon spread across the country, leaving hundreds dead, entire neighbourhoods turned to rubble, and tens of thousands of Muslims confined to internment camps. This violence, breaking out amid the passage to democracy, was spurred on by monks, pro-democracy activists and even politicians. In this gripping and deeply reported account, Francis Wade explores how the manipulation of identities by an anxious ruling elite has laid the foundations for mass violence, and how, in Myanmar’s case, some of the most respected and articulate voices for democracy have turned on the Muslim population at a time when the majority of citizens are beginning to experience freedoms unseen for half a century.

Author : Manzoor Hasan,Syed Mansoob Murshed,Priya Pillai
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000822199

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The Rohingya Crisis by Manzoor Hasan,Syed Mansoob Murshed,Priya Pillai Pdf

This edited volume addresses the broader aspects of the political and social landscape, human rights violations, accountability and advocacy efforts, and humanitarian challenges faced by the Rohingya from Myanmar. The work brings together different voices of legal, policy, and international affairs experts to construct a framework which addresses the complex and nuanced issues comprising the Rohingya crisis. Although there is recognition that international legal mechanisms are moving forward more quickly than anticipated, these processes do not constitute standalone sustainable solutions. Myanmar’s myriad political, social cohesion, development and security challenges are likely to persist even as justice and accountability processes move forward. Thus, this book project is premised on the consensus that the international community should complement international justice mechanisms by looking toward creative and multi-faceted approaches in addition to justice and accountability. This timely contribution will be of interest to academics, researchers, development practitioners, and human rights organizations.