Kazi Fahmida Farzana
Biographic Data
| ID | 1045347 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kazi Fahmida Farzana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kazi Fahmida |
| FAMILY NAME | Farzana |
| SIGNATURE | FARZANA K F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern University of Malaysia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1987-5910 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Religious origins of nationalist movements
Nationalism in Asia and Africa is generally understood as a modern secular movement for independence. However, this idea is contestable. Analysing nationalism in India and the Sudan, this paper argues that nationalist movements there actually had their origins in Islamic religious resistance against the British colonial rule preceding the development of secular nationalism. Depending on political development following the colonial advancement, th…
Sounding Resilience and Resistance
The Rohingya ethnic minority from the Rakhine state of Myanmar has been forced to become a stateless community currently living in some countries in South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and beyond.They are regarded as a persecuted community that has encountered structural inequality and systematic violence in Myanmar for decades due to their religious and ethnic identity.The painful experiences and collective memories remain alive in their …
Sounding Resilience and Resistance
The Rohingya ethnic minority from the Rakhine state of Myanmar has been forced to become a stateless community currently living in some countries in South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and beyond. They are regarded as a persecuted community that has encountered structural inequality and systematic violence in Myanmar for decades due to their religious and ethnic identity. The painful experiences and collective memories remain alive in thei…
Sounding Resilience and Resistance
Building Bridges
This article critically examines the Islamic Religious Community (IRC) in North Macedonia, focusing on its significant role in influencing religious practices, socio-political dynamics, and interfaith relations within the country. Since its inception following the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the IRC has been central to redefining the public role of Islam, advocating for religious freedoms, and supporting the development of democratic values. Throu…
Championing the voices of the displaced. A review of Nasir Uddin's The Rohingya
Conclusion
This chapter focuses on the shifting context of borderland politics, current realities in the border, particularly the sectarian violence that plagues the border community since June 2012. The book concludes by making several recommendations that address questions of identity and belonging, the meaning and consequences of these kinds of contexts for our understanding of the plight of the refugees and their future prospects.
The Historical and Politico-Military Context of the Border
This chapter provides the historical and socio-political contexts, the historical setting into which identities are constructed, indicating to examine the long-term root causes of displacement. In particular, it explores the ways in which ethnic difference has been manifested in pre-colonial and colonial history, and politicized the state-minority relationships in the post-independence modern day Burma/MyanmarMyanmar . It attempts to unfold the p…
Music and Art as Symbols of Identity and Everyday Resistance
This chapter provides the most unique contribution of this book as work on Rohingya cultural practices is virtually non-existent. It studies Rohingya identity through a different lens: their cultural life, as framed in music and art. The refugees use these two means to document their reflections on their life, belief, and their visions of the past, present, and future. The chapter looks at how the refugees use music and the arts to generate passi…
Everyday Life in Refugee Camps
This chapter addresses the issue of identity in a different way, placing it within the macro-politico-economic framework of nation-state interactions. It takes the position that camp life is imposed, restricted, and controlled and involves multiple dimensions and agencies. Through their experience of camp life and interactions with various agencies, the refugees are further reminded of their stateless status, foreign origin, and separate identity…
The Refugee Problem from an Official Account
This chapter examines more closely the nature and context of the official accounts of the three agencies responsible for deciding the outcome of the Rohingya refugees. The first section describes MyanmarMyanmar ’s official position and perspective on the Rohingya problem, and its policy toward the refugee crisis. The second section describes the Bangladesh government’s position and the solutions it offers. The third section presents the views of …
Reconstructions of Social Memory by Refugees
This chapter uses the tool of social memory to get a sense of the refugees’ collective identity. It presents the dimension of social memory that includes numerous kinds of social, political, economic, and religious persecutions that have occurred, in the form of abuses related to denial of citizenship rights, and interference in everyday life in their land of origin, forcing them to migrate to another country. The chapter then focuses on individu…
Memories of Burmese Rohingya Refugees
This book provides a critical analysis of the Rohingya refugees’ identity building processes and how this is closely linked to the state-building process of Myanmar as well as issues of marginalizatio
Boundaries in Shaping the Rohingya Identity and the Shifting Context of Borderland Politics
In recent years, new waves of ethnic violence in the Arakan (Rakhine) state of Burma ( M yanmar) have resulted in increased internal displacement and the continued exodus of the Rohingya people to neighbouring countries. At the heart of this problem is the fact that Burma (which the Rohingyas claim as their ancestral land) and B angladesh (where many Rohingyas are unwelcome and/or undocumented refugees) continue to deny the Rohingyas their politi…
An Artificial Minority
A large number of Biharis who migrated to the former East Pakistan after 1947 have been stranded there since its independence as Bangladesh and separation from Pakistan in 1971. Ever since then, the community has been swaying by the politics of repatriation and hopeless promises. The objective of this paper is to define the status of the Bihari people in Bangladesh. This paper argues that the Bihari community in Bangladesh is an artificial minori…
East Asia Imperilled
Memories of Burmese Rohingya Refugees
This book provides a critical analysis of the Rohingya refugees’ identity building processes and how this is closely linked to the state-building process of Myanmar as well as issues of marginalizatio
Boundaries in Shaping the Rohingya Identity and the Shifting Context of Borderland Politics
In recent years, new waves of ethnic violence in the Arakan (Rakhine) state of Burma ( M yanmar) have resulted in increased internal displacement and the continued exodus of the Rohingya people to neighbouring countries. At the heart of this problem is the fact that Burma (which the Rohingyas claim as their ancestral land) and B angladesh (where many Rohingyas are unwelcome and/or undocumented refugees) continue to deny the Rohingyas their politi…
An Artificial Minority
A large number of Biharis who migrated to the former East Pakistan after 1947 have been stranded there since its independence as Bangladesh and separation from Pakistan in 1971. Ever since then, the community has been swaying by the politics of repatriation and hopeless promises. The objective of this paper is to define the status of the Bihari people in Bangladesh. This paper argues that the Bihari community in Bangladesh is an artificial minori…
An Artificial Minority
A large number of Biharis who migrated to the former East Pakistan after 1947 have been stranded there since its independence as Bangladesh and separation from Pakistan in 1971. Ever since then, the community has been swaying by the politics of repatriation and hopeless promises. The objective of this paper is to define the status of the Bihari people in Bangladesh. This paper argues that the Bihari community in Bangladesh is an artificial minori…
East Asia Imperilled
Boundaries in Shaping the Rohingya Identity and the Shifting Context of Borderland Politics
In recent years, new waves of ethnic violence in the Arakan (Rakhine) state of Burma ( M yanmar) have resulted in increased internal displacement and the continued exodus of the Rohingya people to neighbouring countries. At the heart of this problem is the fact that Burma (which the Rohingyas claim as their ancestral land) and B angladesh (where many Rohingyas are unwelcome and/or undocumented refugees) continue to deny the Rohingyas their politi…
Conclusion
This chapter focuses on the shifting context of borderland politics, current realities in the border, particularly the sectarian violence that plagues the border community since June 2012. The book concludes by making several recommendations that address questions of identity and belonging, the meaning and consequences of these kinds of contexts for our understanding of the plight of the refugees and their future prospects.
The Historical and Politico-Military Context of the Border
This chapter provides the historical and socio-political contexts, the historical setting into which identities are constructed, indicating to examine the long-term root causes of displacement. In particular, it explores the ways in which ethnic difference has been manifested in pre-colonial and colonial history, and politicized the state-minority relationships in the post-independence modern day Burma/MyanmarMyanmar . It attempts to unfold the p…
Music and Art as Symbols of Identity and Everyday Resistance
This chapter provides the most unique contribution of this book as work on Rohingya cultural practices is virtually non-existent. It studies Rohingya identity through a different lens: their cultural life, as framed in music and art. The refugees use these two means to document their reflections on their life, belief, and their visions of the past, present, and future. The chapter looks at how the refugees use music and the arts to generate passi…
Everyday Life in Refugee Camps
This chapter addresses the issue of identity in a different way, placing it within the macro-politico-economic framework of nation-state interactions. It takes the position that camp life is imposed, restricted, and controlled and involves multiple dimensions and agencies. Through their experience of camp life and interactions with various agencies, the refugees are further reminded of their stateless status, foreign origin, and separate identity…
The Refugee Problem from an Official Account
This chapter examines more closely the nature and context of the official accounts of the three agencies responsible for deciding the outcome of the Rohingya refugees. The first section describes MyanmarMyanmar ’s official position and perspective on the Rohingya problem, and its policy toward the refugee crisis. The second section describes the Bangladesh government’s position and the solutions it offers. The third section presents the views of …
Reconstructions of Social Memory by Refugees
This chapter uses the tool of social memory to get a sense of the refugees’ collective identity. It presents the dimension of social memory that includes numerous kinds of social, political, economic, and religious persecutions that have occurred, in the form of abuses related to denial of citizenship rights, and interference in everyday life in their land of origin, forcing them to migrate to another country. The chapter then focuses on individu…
Memories of Burmese Rohingya Refugees
This book provides a critical analysis of the Rohingya refugees’ identity building processes and how this is closely linked to the state-building process of Myanmar as well as issues of marginalizatio
Championing the voices of the displaced. A review of Nasir Uddin's The Rohingya
Sounding Resilience and Resistance
The Rohingya ethnic minority from the Rakhine state of Myanmar has been forced to become a stateless community currently living in some countries in South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and beyond.They are regarded as a persecuted community that has encountered structural inequality and systematic violence in Myanmar for decades due to their religious and ethnic identity.The painful experiences and collective memories remain alive in their …
Sounding Resilience and Resistance
The Rohingya ethnic minority from the Rakhine state of Myanmar has been forced to become a stateless community currently living in some countries in South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and beyond. They are regarded as a persecuted community that has encountered structural inequality and systematic violence in Myanmar for decades due to their religious and ethnic identity. The painful experiences and collective memories remain alive in thei…
Sounding Resilience and Resistance
Building Bridges
This article critically examines the Islamic Religious Community (IRC) in North Macedonia, focusing on its significant role in influencing religious practices, socio-political dynamics, and interfaith relations within the country. Since its inception following the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the IRC has been central to redefining the public role of Islam, advocating for religious freedoms, and supporting the development of democratic values. Throu…
Religious origins of nationalist movements
Nationalism in Asia and Africa is generally understood as a modern secular movement for independence. However, this idea is contestable. Analysing nationalism in India and the Sudan, this paper argues that nationalist movements there actually had their origins in Islamic religious resistance against the British colonial rule preceding the development of secular nationalism. Depending on political development following the colonial advancement, th…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Refugee (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works)