Description:
"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..."
Source/publisher:
Forced Migration Review No. 32
Date of Publication:
2009-04-00
Date of entry:
2010-02-20
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- Individual Documents
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Language:
English, Français, Español, Russian, Arabic