Rohingya Crisis

This article examines how four Indian English-language news platforms represented Rohingya refugees between 2012 and 2021. It analyses 129 written online news items through qualitative content analysis and descriptive counts. The findings show that humanitarian victim framing predominates: 84 items, or 65.12 per cent, portray Rohingyas as persecuted, stateless and displaced. By contrast, 45 items, or 34.88 per cent, use a threat/intruder frame centred on illegality, border control, criminality, demographic anxiety and national security. The article argues that Indian media coverage is not dominated by securitised narratives. It is, however, marked by a contested field where humanitarian representation coexists with threat framing.

The Russia–Myanmar relationship is gathering strength. Bangladesh wants to use the increasing bonhomie between Russia and Myanmar to start a tri-lateral process to reach an amicable solution to the Rohingya refugee crisis.

How do humanitarian norms and national security concerns shape a host state refugee policy? This article addresses this question in the context of Bangladesh, the largest host state in the world for Rohingya refugees. It argues that although the norms of humanitarian protection can explain why a host state would open its border to forced migrants and allow relief agencies access to the refugee camps, humanitarianism alone cannot explain the full gamut of a state’s refugee policy.