The Rohingya Crisis: A Cross-Border Analysis of Habiburahman’s First, They Erased Our Name

Khum Prasad Sharma

Published in Literary Oracle — Vol.8, Issue I, May 2024

Keywords: Refugee Immigrants, Humanitarian Crisis, Stateless Plights, Biopolitics, Hybridity

Abstract:

Habiburahman’s First, They Erased Our Name reflects the Rohingya crisis which has been one of the glaring crucial issues of the contemporary world. Historically, Rohingya are a native minority Muslims of Arakan State, West Myanmar. However, during the 1980s, due to the rise of autocratic rule under U Ne Win in Myanmar, Rohingya community was persecuted suspending their political rights. And they were cracked down into a state of non-citizens not listed in 135 recognized ethnic groups. The Rohingya crisis is characterized by sectarian violence between the Rohingya Muslim and Rakhine Buddhist communities. The tyrannical move of Myanmar authorities against Rohingya turns them into severe restrictions on their freedom of movement and extreme barriers to accessing basic humanitarian assistance. In addition, Rohingya people have been scattered into several parts of the world from 1982 onwards deserving stateless status living in between natural life Zoe and political life Bios. Theoretically, this paper will analyze the real plights of Rohingya immigrants through the theoretical lenses of Foucault’s ideas on power dynamics and biopolitics Homi K. Bhabha’s hybridity and resistance and Agamben in relation to Arendt’s right to have right. It further offers a different solution in fostering understanding and empathy, offering a scholarly contribution to the ongoing discourse surrounding displacement, identity, and resistance.

https://doi-ds.org/doilink/06.2024-66889458/LiteraryOracle/2024/V8/I1/A7