Visiting Scholar Lecture: The Genocidal Perspective of Rohingya Influx to Bangladesh: An empirical study in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camp
Thursday, April 13, 2023
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Centennial Student Union 202 or Via Zoom
Genocidal Perspective of Rohingya Influx to Bangladesh: An empirical study in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camp
CSU 202 OR VIA ZOOM
Visiting Scholar Mohammad Mohiuddin will give a talk from 12:30-1:15.
Be sure to join us for a reception after the event to celebrate a fabulous spring semester, say goodbye to Mohammed as he ends his year at MSU Mankato, and spend some time together before we head off for the summer!
Mohammad Mohiuddin is a Ph.D. student in the Environmental Sustainability and Well-being program at the University of Ferrara, Italy. Currently, he is working as a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Sociology, Minnesota State University, USA. Mohiuddin has been working as a faculty at the Department of Sociology, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh since 2013. His Ph.D. project is titled "The Rohingya influx and environmental sustainability: A study on the Rohingya and host community of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh."
This talk focuses on the genocide that took place in the Rakhine state of Myanmar against the Rohingya minorities. During the Myanmar military’s ‘Clearance operation’ in around 700,000 Rohingya refugees migrated to Bangladesh alone. It was taxonomized as the ‘World’s fastest-growing refugee crisis’ and the ‘Textbook example of ethnic cleansing and possibly genocide’ by the United Nations. This talk will highlight some of Mr. Mohiuddin’s research findings from a qualitative study including interviews among 100 refugees at the Rohingya camp in Bangladesh in Dec. 2022 and Jan. 2023.
Please note: This talk with contain mentions of mass atrocities including physical and sexual violence
