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"After the Exodus examines how forced migration of the Rohingya from Myanmar to Bangladesh has affected the gendered subjectivities and lived experiences of Rohingya refugee women, and transformed gender relations and roles in displacement. Based on 14 months of feminist ethnographic fieldwork in Bangladesh's Kutupalong-Balukhali refugee camp in 2017 and 2018, the book uncovers the everyday strategies employed by refugee women to create a sense of belonging and to make a life for themselves after forced migration. Rohingya women adapt to camp life by negotiating marriage and intimate experiences, adjusting to changing gender divisions of labour, and navigating encounters with humanitarian aid agencies and male camp leaders. These women strategically bargain shifting power relations to reconstruct their lives in displacement, thereby reclaiming agency and asserting their identity through the spaces they create, inhabit, and reshape; the coping mechanisms they employ; and the bonds of kinship and community they forge"--
List of contents
Acknowledgements; Glossary of Terms; Prologue; 1. Introduction; 2. Stories and Silences: On Entering and Writing Women's Worlds; 3. Life Under Siege: On Violence and Displacement; 4. At Journey's End: On Home and Belonging; 5. Beyond Brides: On Marriage and Moral Panics; 6. Broken Breadwinners: On Womanhood and Gender Divisions of Labour; 7. The Price of Development: On NGOs and Gender Programming; 8. Conclusion; Epilogue; Bibliography.
About the author
Farhana Afrin Rahman is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Isaac Newton Trust Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, as well as a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College Cambridge. Her research interests include gender, refugees and forced migration, international development, lived experiences, and violence and conflict, amongst others.
Summary
Focuses on the lived experiences of Rohingya women in Bangladesh's refugee camps. It examines how forced migration of the Rohingya from Myanmar to Bangladesh has transformed Rohingya gender relations and roles in displacement. It further reveals how refugee women reconstruct their lives by creating a sense of belonging.
