More than a million Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh, with 0.75 million since 2017 having experienced religious and ethnic persecution. The Rohingya women and girls are the worst victims. Rohingya women have experienced colossal sufferings while staying in Myanmar, fleeing towards an insecure and unknown destination and adjusting to a ruthless environment in Bangladeshi camps. The present chapter, based on extensive review, direct interviews, KIIs, and FGDs with the key stakeholders, is an attempt to unveil the inherent massive struggles of the Rohingya women and to explore their current adjustments to the camp environment in Bangladesh. Rohingya women have largely been brought up in a conservative, patriarchal society involving religious superstition and dogma, and therefore have hardly have access to education, assets, political rights, and jobs outside the home, which makes them dependent on male members of the family. Their lives are cursed with polygamy, and hence they often encounter separation and divorce multiple times in their lives. Persecution and sexual assaults experienced in Myanmar, upon their arrival in Bangladesh, and while residing in the camp environment have increased their struggles many times over. In the camp environments they suffer from security issues, sanitation, hygiene, water availability, sexual assaults, limited livelihood options, and many more issues. However, they are also coping with the situation by adopting different strategies like empowering themselves with education and occupation to some extent, urging their male children to become religious leaders, seeking unity among the women, pursuing marriage, and others. NGOs and INGOs are also introducing new strategies in order to ensure gender balance and eradicate gender suppression in the camps.

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Unveiling the Inherent Struggles and Adjustments of Rohingya Women in the Camp Environment

  • Hafiza Khatun,
  • Md. Humayun Kabir,
  • Maliha Haque

摘要

More than a million Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh, with 0.75 million since 2017 having experienced religious and ethnic persecution. The Rohingya women and girls are the worst victims. Rohingya women have experienced colossal sufferings while staying in Myanmar, fleeing towards an insecure and unknown destination and adjusting to a ruthless environment in Bangladeshi camps. The present chapter, based on extensive review, direct interviews, KIIs, and FGDs with the key stakeholders, is an attempt to unveil the inherent massive struggles of the Rohingya women and to explore their current adjustments to the camp environment in Bangladesh. Rohingya women have largely been brought up in a conservative, patriarchal society involving religious superstition and dogma, and therefore have hardly have access to education, assets, political rights, and jobs outside the home, which makes them dependent on male members of the family. Their lives are cursed with polygamy, and hence they often encounter separation and divorce multiple times in their lives. Persecution and sexual assaults experienced in Myanmar, upon their arrival in Bangladesh, and while residing in the camp environment have increased their struggles many times over. In the camp environments they suffer from security issues, sanitation, hygiene, water availability, sexual assaults, limited livelihood options, and many more issues. However, they are also coping with the situation by adopting different strategies like empowering themselves with education and occupation to some extent, urging their male children to become religious leaders, seeking unity among the women, pursuing marriage, and others. NGOs and INGOs are also introducing new strategies in order to ensure gender balance and eradicate gender suppression in the camps.