Coping practices and gender relations: Rohingya refugee forced migrations from Myanmar to India

Field, Jessica; Pandit, Aishwarya; Rajdev, Minakshi

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2021.1997938

Gender, Place & Culture

2021

DOI: 10.1080/0966369x.2021.1997938

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Coping practices and gender relations: Rohingya refugee forced migrations from Myanmar to India

Jessica Field

Aishwarya Pandit

Minakshi Rajdev

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“…Gender often plays a part in the type of traumatic threat an individual may experience (Olff, 2017; Taheri et al, 2023) with the diversity of traumas specific to women producing gender-specific responses (Bowers, 2009). Gender-specific traumatic events negatively impacting women include intimate partner violence (Wachter et al, 2018), rape (Hynes et al, 2004), ethnic cleansing (Field et al, 2023), and gender minimization (McCormack & Bennett, 2023). Cumulative on the refugee journey, many of these are likely to be experienced by women throughout pre-, during, and postmigration.…”

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From the brink of survival to “become the person that they want to become”: Gender minimization, refugee trauma, and growth in women from Afghanistan.

Taheri,

Fitzpatrick,

McCormack

2024

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From the brink of survival to “become the person that they want to become”: Gender minimization, refugee trauma, and growth in women from Afghanistan.

Taheri,

Fitzpatrick,

McCormack

2024

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Examining Traumatic Experiences: Violence, Loss, Isolation, Cultural Struggle, and Their Influence on the Mental Health of Unaccompanied Rohingya Youth Resettled in the U.S.

Evans,

Nemphos,

Husfloen

et al. 2023

Journal of Loss and Trauma

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The Rohingya, a stateless Muslim minority from Myanmar, are a relatively small, yet extremely vulnerable group of refugees in the United States. Most research on Rohingya focuses on trauma in Myanmar rather than adjustment to the U.S., and almost none looks specifically at adolescents. Therefore, in this paper the data are from qualitative focus groups (n=10) with 23 service providers to help answer the research question: In what ways did service providers discuss the trauma histories and mental health adjustment of Rohingya unaccompanied refugee minors? Results indicate that both pre-migration trauma and aspects of adjustment post-arrival are factors influencing the rocky start to life in U.S. communities. Specifically, a history of normalized violence was noted to lead to acting out behaviors and seeking of harm; and their vast experiences of loss (family, friends, and culture) were discussed in terms of survivors' guilt and prolonged mental health challenges. Themes in terms of post migration isolation in a new environment, and cultural struggles in understanding U.S. culture and the norms of foster care were also discussed. Implications include the need to destigmatize mental health services and seek alternatives, help youth overcome the survivor's guilt, and ensure both foster parents and case management staff have adequate training and tools to work with youth who have experienced extreme institutional discrimination, personal violence, and ethnic cleansing.

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Bargaining (in)visibility: Rohingya refugees and the politics of visibility in India

Mitra,

Şahin-Mencütek

2024

Journal of Refugee Studies

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Despite relatively low numbers, Rohingya refugees in India have faced a spiralling, multi-factorial crisis of negative visibility over the past decade, constructed by public opinion, politicians, and media coverage. This paper examines this process of negative visibility, largely outside of the community’s control, its very real consequences, and in response, how refugees navigate within an increasingly hostile policy landscape. Relying on qualitative data collected with refugees, community leaders, and NGOs in Delhi, Jaipur, and Hyderabad (2022–23), we make three interrelated arguments. First, the visibility of the Rohingya as ‘illegal immigrants’ is driven by multiple spatial and episodic factors and actors embedded in India’s fragmented refugee governance. Second, refugees seem to adopt strategic mobilities/immobilities and pursue visibility in both mediated and coerced ways to protect themselves against the risks of negative visibility. Third, these strategies have unintended consequences for reassertion of hierarchical power relations within the community and with state authorities. Empirical evidence from the Rohingya case in India contributes to growing scholarly discussion on the co-constitutive politics of (in)visibility, (im)mobility, and fragmented refugee governance in South Asia.

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Coping practices and gender relations: Rohingya refugee forced migrations from Myanmar to India

Cited by 4 publications

References 31 publications

From the brink of survival to “become the person that they want to become”: Gender minimization, refugee trauma, and growth in women from Afghanistan.

From the brink of survival to “become the person that they want to become”: Gender minimization, refugee trauma, and growth in women from Afghanistan.

Examining Traumatic Experiences: Violence, Loss, Isolation, Cultural Struggle, and Their Influence on the Mental Health of Unaccompanied Rohingya Youth Resettled in the U.S.

Bargaining (in)visibility: Rohingya refugees and the politics of visibility in India

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