Securitization of Rohingya analysis of Bangladeshi newspapers

The arrival of Rohingya refugees in 2017 marked the third major influx into Bangladesh in the past 50 years. The most severe exodus occurred on 25th August 2017, when a violent military crackdown in Rakhine state forced about 700,000 Rohingya to flee to neighboring Bangladesh (USA for UNHCR, 2024)...

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Main Author: Bhattacharjee, Manidipa
Other Authors: Humanistis-yhteiskuntatieteellinen tiedekunta, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Yhteiskuntatieteiden ja filosofian laitos, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Jyväskylän yliopisto, University of Jyväskylä
Format: Master's thesis
Language:eng
Published: 2025
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Online Access: https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/103381
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description The arrival of Rohingya refugees in 2017 marked the third major influx into Bangladesh in the past 50 years. The most severe exodus occurred on 25th August 2017, when a violent military crackdown in Rakhine state forced about 700,000 Rohingya to flee to neighboring Bangladesh (USA for UNHCR, 2024). Escalating inter-group conflicts among the Rohingyas for establishing dominance in drug, arms, and human trafficking, killing, abduction, have compelled the government to execute more securitized measures to ensure proper law and order in the camps. The growing violence in Rohingya camps, attributed to various violent groups, as documented in 50 articles of 5 mainstream newspapers and 1 private news agency. Based on securitization theory, this thesis examines three research questions, like ‘what activities inside the camps are security threats for Bangladesh?’, ‘who are the security actors of Bangladesh? ‘What are the discursive and non-discursive security discourses narrated in the newspapers? This thesis follows document analysis as a data source and presents the results based on qualitative thematic analysis. At the end of the thesis, three research questions are answered based on the combined documents and theoretical perspectives. To get the in-depth insights, I addressed themes and sub-themes, analyzing my data, which provides the best outcomes. As the research result, this thesis identified the security concerns raised for Bangladesh as increasing violence within the Rohingya camps, securitizing actors of Bangladesh are also active and contributing to shaping public perception. As discursive securitizing tools ‘speech acts’ are properly constructed and framed through the newspaper's presentation. But this research identified a limitation and research gap which is regarding securitization policies and proper measures that make securitization effective and which is now an emergency concern as per camp violence, new influx, and the ongoing civil war in Myanmar.
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title Securitization of Rohingya : analysis of Bangladeshi newspapers
title_full Securitization of Rohingya : analysis of Bangladeshi newspapers
title_fullStr Securitization of Rohingya : analysis of Bangladeshi newspapers Securitization of Rohingya : analysis of Bangladeshi newspapers
title_full_unstemmed Securitization of Rohingya : analysis of Bangladeshi newspapers Securitization of Rohingya : analysis of Bangladeshi newspapers
title_short Securitization of Rohingya
title_sort securitization of rohingya analysis of bangladeshi newspapers
title_sub analysis of Bangladeshi newspapers
title_txtP Securitization of Rohingya : analysis of Bangladeshi newspapers
topic Rohingya securitization Copenhagen School (discursive approach) Paris school (non-discursive approach) Kansainvälinen kehitystyö (maisteriohjelma) Master's Degree Programme in Development and International Cooperation väkivalta pakolaiset sanomalehdet rohingat ihmiskauppa rajavalvonta
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