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Bangladesh now hosts more than one million stateless Rohingya people. Most of them have entered the country since August 2017, amid military crackdowns on them in the state of Rakhine in Myanmar. The stateless population is considered to be one of the biggest threats to regional peace and security in South Asia. This chapter explores the security challenges and concerns from three different perspectives: (i) local livelihood, (ii) political competition, and (iii) future risks of radicalisation that may emerge from the statelessness of the Rohingya. This paper highlights the current situation that requires particular actions on behalf of regional governments. Political will is needed and measures must be initiated with a view to successfully handling security implications.
Prof. Dr. Md Nurul Momen, Department of Public Administration, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi-6205, Bangladesh. Email: nurulmomen@ru.ac.bd (work).
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Momem, M.N. (2021). The Rohingya Refugee Crisis: Implications for Regional Security. In: Oswald Spring, Ú., Brauch, H.G. (eds) Decolonising Conflicts, Security, Peace, Gender, Environment and Development in the Anthropocene . The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science, vol 30. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62316-6_21
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