We have no soil under our feet

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"In the muddy setting of an overcrowded camp in Bangladesh, Jhora Shama tells me her story. Jhora is an unregistered refugee, a Rohingya, who has been living illegally in Bangladesh for 16 years. She fled to Bangladesh from Arakan [Rakhine] State in Burma after her family?s farm was ransacked, their livestock confiscated and her husband tortured. He now works in Malaysia and sends money to her but it is never enough and her family often goes to bed fighting hunger pains. Because she lives in Bangladesh illegally, she cannot work and must go out to beg for money. She hopes to find a family to take her children as housekeepers because there is no food here..."

Creator/author: 

Kristy Crabtree

Source/publisher: 

Forced Migration Review No. 32

Date of Publication: 

2009-04-00

Date of entry: 

2010-02-20

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English, Français, Español, Russian, Arabic

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