Md Mizanur Rahman
PhD
Md Mizanur Rahman is a PhD candidate conducting ethnographic research on the issues of identity, belonging, and mobility aspirations of Rohingyas living in Bangladesh from Myanmar. He completed an MA in Development Studies with a specialisation in Governance of Migration and Diversity from the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands. His recent publications include a journal article titled 'Humanizing Statelessness through an Artistic Approach' published in Statelessness and Citizenship Review, 2(2), and a co-authored book chapter titled 'Are you Real, Seriously? Ethical dilemmas of an online role play in the Rohingya crisis', published by Routledge.
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Thesis
Strategic acts to survive: Rohingya refugees' politics of belonging in Bangladesh
In the global scholarship and policy frameworks, refugees are often homogenised as an internally coherent and externally bounded group of people. This overlooks intra-group politics of belonging, especially in the context of forced migration. Drawing from the case of Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh, my research explores refugees' politics of belonging through the conceptual lens of governmentality. I will employ ethnographic methods to examine how Rohingya's identity and belonging are constructed, represented, and contested by different actors and institutions. By looking beyond groupist and sedentary perspectives, my study will enrich the debates on refugees' identity and belonging.
Research interests
- Statelessness
- Migration and refugee studies
- Anthropology of Development