For years, the Rohingya have been portrayed as “guests” in Bangladesh, but beneath that humanitarian veneer lies a grim strategy: manage the Rohingya as a disposable population, useful for political leverage and donor funding. My latest article in Himal Southasian applies the surplus population framework to reveal how Bangladesh’s policies exploit Rohingya labour, commodify their suffering, and keep them locked in aid-dependent limbo rather than offering real solutions.
Read the full piece here:
How Bangladesh is exploiting the Rohingya refugee crisis
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