What is it about?
When the refugees started arriving, people in Bangladesh responded with informal helping and support, before government and NGOs got involved. What motivated this response? The paper discusses this through the lens of Bangladesh's own history.
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Why is it important?
Much of what has been written about the Rohingya refugee crisis focuses on conditions in the camps and on the origins of the crisis in Myanmar. Not much has been written about the impact of the refugee crisis on Bangladesh.
Perspectives
I wrote this paper after visiting Cox's Bazaar in early 2018 - and being both shocked by the situation, and impressed by the local response, which puts many other countries - including my own - to shame in their willingness to receive refugees.
David Lewis
London School of Economics and Political Science
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This page is a summary of: Humanitarianism, civil society and the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh, Third World Quarterly, September 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2019.1652897.
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