CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Akhi, Nishat Tasnim |
|---|---|
| Title | Stateless Rohingya Refugee Integration in Informal Economy: A Case from Coxs Bazar District in Bangladesh |
| Summary | Myanmar’s genocide on Rohingya Muslim community have caused displacement for this minority group and this led them to migrate into neighboring countries. Bangladesh is the country where majority of the people from Rohingya community of Myanmar have been sheltered as refugees over the years. Since these refugees do not hold any legal work right in Bangladesh, they are involving into different informal economic activities along with various crimes in the city where they have been kept. In this paper, it is being evaluated that if the refugees could successfully integrate in the informal economic sector in the cox’s Bazar district of Bangladesh by comparing their labor market activities with the local people. The findings say that there is a wide variation in terms of type of occupation and earnings per month between the local and refugee workers. Moreover, the results also indicate that Rohingya refugees face more difficulties while accessing to labor market compared to local workers. |
| Supervisor | Professor Akbar, Yusaf H. |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/akhi_nishat-tasnim.pdf |
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