Paper
The Ruptures of Rohingya Muslim immigrants in Nepal : An ethnographic reflections in the post pandemic context
presenters
Dr. Sachin Ghimire
Nationality: Nepali
Residence: Nepali
Centre Department of Public Health, Department of Public Health
Presence:Face to Face/ On Site
Keywords:
Refugee, Rohingya, Social sufferings
Abstract:
To escape from violent communal conflict in Burma, the Rohnigya muslim community has been fled from Myanmar to escape from military repression and reached the capital city of Nepal Kathmandu through the route of Bangladesh and India completing the month long difficult journey of more than 1200kms and forced to label them as an 'illigal immigrants". Though Nepal has not signed any refugee related conventions, however Rohnigyas are allowed to develop temporary settlement in the capital city of Nepal on the humanitarian basis. UNHCR has managed to allocate some support who arrived in Nepal before 2015, however that support has been stopped at present. In the lack of official paper, they do not get any opportunity to work and access other resources legally in Nepal instead they have to do confine themselves to different kinds of informal work as a carpenter, cleaner, construction and manual workers. The everyday hardships such as poor material condition of the shelter, common toilet, poor sanitary and overcrowded conditions, managing rent for the landlord, and manage financial support to buy foods and clothes and to avail the education for their children and tertiary health services in the advance level complications are some of the challenges they have to cope up everyday. This paper highlights the social sufferings and their ruptures in the post pandemic situation in the temporary refugee settlement of Rohingya Muslims in Nepal.