Author: nmurshid

I have stopped trying to make sense of the horror that continues in the Myanmar-Bangladesh border. But, I will say a few things, by way of coming to terms with my ignorance of the Rohingyas’ plight while growing up that doesn’t seem so benign after all. I grew up in …

Excerpt from Politics of Refugees in South Asia: Identity, Manipulation, Resistance  by Navine Murshid The “Rohingya crisis” began in 1974 when the Burmese military government took away the Rohingya’s citizenship, claiming they were economic migrants who had traveled to Myanmar during British rule. This ethnic group is thus stateless, with …

This is the first installment of a series of posts on migrant lives around the world. They are anecdotal and might even sound remote, but they are also the back-stories behind many popular narratives about migrants and migration. SLAVING AWAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST The story about Nepali “slave labor” in …