Abstract
The Rohingya refugee crisis is a humanitarian disaster with over 740,000 Rohingya leaving their homes in Rakhine State, Myanmar, since August 2017. In the process of this mass exodus, thousands have been brutally murdered and terrorized through a campaign of physical attacks by the Myanmar state including murder, beatings and mutilations; mass gang rape and sexual slavery of women and girls; and the burning of entire villages. The victims have been men, women, and children who were targeted because they belonged to a Muslim minority ethnic group. The crisis has been recognized as genocide by officials from several countries including Canada, France, Gambia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, and Turkey. Furthermore, a recent ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Myanmar to take all necessary measures to prevent the genocide of the Rohingya. The genocide of the Rohingya has resulted in a massive number of refugees fleeing to Bangladesh, with 1.1 million of an estimated 2.4 million Rohingya across the world currently encamped there. This crisis has led to questions about how the basic needs of these refugees are being met and if there is any possibility for a life beyond the refugee camps through educational programming. This study explores the educational realities of Rohingya refugees through a process of open-ended and semi-structured interviews of aid workers and educators working in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh. Through examining the educational programming in these camps, this article aims to better understand the educational opportunities for social mobility, identity preservation, and the availability of religious instruction to the Rohingya. The findings of this study suggest that religious instruction centers may serve to improve gender- based educational gaps for adolescent Rohingya women.
Highlights
The Rohingya refugee crisis is one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of its generation.More than 740,000 Rohingya have been expelled from their homes in Rakhine State, Myanmar, sinceAugust 2017 (The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 2019)
This study explores the educational realities of Rohingya refugees through a process of open-ended and semi-structured interviews of aid workers and educators working in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh
This study examined the challenges faced by educators and aid workers in providing educational programming and services to the Rohingya refugees in the Kutupalong refugee camp
Summary
The Rohingya refugee crisis is one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of its generation.More than 740,000 Rohingya have been expelled from their homes in Rakhine State, Myanmar, sinceAugust 2017 (The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 2019). The Rohingya refugee crisis is one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of its generation. More than 740,000 Rohingya have been expelled from their homes in Rakhine State, Myanmar, since. August 2017 (The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 2019). This mass exodus has been incited by an organized campaign against the Rohingya by the Myanmar state. Women, and children were targeted because they belonged to a largely Muslim minority ethnic group, with thousands brutally murdered and traumatized through physical attacks, sexual violence, and the burning of villages (McPherson 2017). In September 2018, Canada recognized the crimes committed against the Rohingya at the hands of the Myanmar military as constituting genocide, and urged the United Nations (UN) Security Council to act (Harris 2018). A UN investigative report released in Religions 2020, 11, 241; doi:10.3390/rel11050241 www.mdpi.com/journal/religions
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