From the Translocal to the Multi-Sited Transnational

Tracing Rohingya Refugee Networks in India

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4263182
AutoresRohini Mitra (0009-0001-5355-6470, Centre for Development Research (ZEF) University of Bonn Bonn Germany, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Volumen25
Número1
Fecha de publicación2025-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGlobal Networks (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1470-2266 • E-ISSN: 1471-0374
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/glob.12494
OpenAlexW4401001231
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas66

This paper examines the transnational and translocal experiences of the Rohingya in India, a stateless, refugee community forcibly displaced from Myanmar, onward migrants from Bangladesh, who currently occupy a legally precarious space in India. Drawing on approximately 90 interviews conducted with refugees, community leaders and NGOs across three Indian cities, along with informal group discussions and field notes, this paper makes two arguments that shed light on the complex, multi-factorial ways in which networks are rebuilt in displacement as well as the emerging characteristics of Rohingya onward migration in Asia. First, that early generations of Rohingya in India leveraged translocal network building spaces and encounters to rebuild their networks with others in the community and create translocal networks of care and support with local civil society actors, cementing the notion of a 'Rohingya refugee community' in India. Second, that the gradual internationalisation of the Rohingya crisis as well as the transnationalisation of the Rohingya diaspora in the last decade through multiple waves of displacement, onward migration and resettlement schemes has prompted a shift towards multi-sited transnationalism, particularly reflected in the emergence of multi-sited transnational families, digital transnational spaces among younger refugees and extended diasporic networks

Geography · Political science · Refugee · Sociology · Syrian refugees · Tracing · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Computer Science · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies