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Information Ecosystems Among Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh Information Information Ecosystems Ecosystems 1 Among Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh January 2020 COAR: The Centre for Operational Analysis and Research | Limassol, Cyprus | www.coar-global.org Information Ecosystems This paper is the first of a multi-part series examining the shifting 2 sociocultural landscapes of minority and conflict-affected populations across Rakhine. The series uses three aspects of information ecosystems mapping – the role of influence, social trust, and information use – to explore the ways in which changes have contributed to community attitudes and impact the efficacy and sustainability of humanitarian interventions. Given the mass displacement of Rohingya to Bangladesh,1* the following paper begins with an examination of the context in Cox’s Bazar, particularly the potential intersection of transformations in key sociocultural dynamics and humanitarian aid provision as would be required in the event of repatriation to Myanmar. CASS is a research and analytical unit that provides contextual and 1* Though there are small numbers of non-Muslim Rohingya, this paper looks primarily operational analysis in support of at majority dynamics and as such deals explicitly with Islamic identity, faith, and practice. humanitarian interventions. COAR: The Centre for Operational Analysis and Research | Limassol, Cyprus | www.coar-global.org Information Ecosystems 3 Executive Summary > The large scale displacement of Rohingya – from Each paper supports response actors in navigating Rakhine State, Myanmar, to a series of refugee camps these information ecosystems more strategically so as located in the Cox’s Bazar district of Bangladesh – to improve programme responsiveness, efficacy, and catalyzed dramatic social and cultural transformations, sustainability. The papers are inevitably elliptical, but most of which are ongoing. Ideas about leadership, should serve as an initial guide for identifying possible modes of building influence and exerting control, blindspots and their impact on programming. and even social roles are evolving at a rapid pace. As a result, it is difficult to understand any single facet Key Takeaways & Considerations for Response Actors of the Rohingya-lived experience in silo; for instance, On the whole, though large scale repatriation is still seemingly small shifts in ideas about representative unlikely (see previous CASS paper Realising Returns) leadership can have a profound impact on gender norms the sociocultural shifts that have taken place in the and domestic arrangements. Humanitarian response camps, combined with the small scale voluntary actors engaging with the Rohingya – in Bangladesh, returns to Rakhine state that have already occurred, Myanmar, or elsewhere – should consider community are significant enough as to have implications for dynamics within the broader context of historical and humanitarian response actors working there. Given sociocultural change.1** current dynamics, donors should assess funding In this multipart series, the Community Analysis mechanisms and consider whether their current modal- Support System (CASS) Myanmar explores the factors ities adequately support the need for cross-border inter- shaping information flows and the impact these systems agency collaboration. have on important governance and conflict issues. At a more granular level: 1** This paper draws on Skype/phone based Key Informant Inter- The breakdown and reconstitution of traditional views (KII) with Registered Rohingya working in the camps in Cox’s Rohingya social structures, in particular, the samaj Bazar. Additionally, short ‘group discussions’ were facilitated by (‘community’ / ‘society’, generally overseen by a Rohingya researchers on behalf of the authors, which covered committee or council), has numerous implications particularly time-sensitive topics such as human trafficking and for Rohingya returnees. For instance: drug smuggling. For other areas of interest, in particular, the examination of religious and social institutions, data were collated • Within Bangladesh, new arrivals were not settled from prior periods of ethnographic fieldwork. Given the rapidly in the camps alongside other refugees from their changing situation in the camps, follow ups were completed to home villages. As a result, the samaj that have check for updates and to seek clarification. been newly formed or reconstituted in the camps COAR: The Centre for Operational Analysis and Research | Limassol, Cyprus | www.coar-global.org Information Ecosystems 4 now contain members from different parts of may be exacerbated by aid provision and which Rakhine. ‘Return to place of origin’ is thus compli- response actors should be careful to monitor. cated by the fact that camp community structures are unlikely to be comprised of refugees from contiguous or even nearby villages. Response actors should consider the ways in which intra- Within Myanmar, influence has often been predicated samaj hierarchies may privilege certain voices upon an individual’s ability to communicate with while silencing others. Rakhine neighbours or Bamar government figures. In the camps, those with Rakhine/Bamar fluency are • Rohingya marriages back in Myanmar generally likely to be older and generally male. involved people from nearby villages. Marriages that have taken place in the camps frequently • Response actors should prepare to hire Rohing- involve families from entirely different townships. ya-speaking staff, particularly women and young Decisions about relocation or return are likely people, to counter the risk of gender and age-based to be determined primarily by the most influ- social exclusion. ential members of newly formed samaj – generally men. As such, these decisions may further • Non-Rakhine/Burmese speakers will likely have separate certain members from their extended limited opportunities for engagement in the public families, who may have ended up in different sector, regardless of prior camp experience. This camps. Response actors should thus consider the loss of influence could create friction between ways in which repatriation may serve to isolate community members and should be carefully women and disrupt family dynamics, particu- considered in hiring volunteers and forming larly domestic care arrangements dependent community consultation committees. on the proximity of extended family members. • Response actors should recognise that a lack of intercommunal communication may be a delib- erate strategy for building influence and not neces- Humanitarian response actors should prepare for sarily a factor of limited opportunity. the likelihood that existing samaj structures, which have been newly constituted in the camps, may strain or disband entirely under the pressure of Educated youth have enjoyed greater social influence repatriation. within the camps than they might have had they remained in Rakhine. Similarly, women have been • Given the important role samaj leadership able to engage in leadership, volunteer, social, and plays in providing for a community’s most educational activities that would have otherwise been vulnerable, in disrupting the samaj structure unavailable to them on account of their gender. Repatri- the repatriation process could leave newly-re- ation may leave many young people and women feeling turned Rohingya communities with even fewer frustrated by the lack of freedom and social recognition. safety nets. Humanitarian actors should proac- tively survey Rohingya communities to identify • If repatriated, educated youth will be highly incen- the ‘basic services’ currently provided by samaj tivised to travel onward from Rakhine to other leadership so as to anticipate possible needs that parts of Myanmar or to third-party countries in may arise with repatriation. search of opportunities. The resulting ‘brain drain’ could hamper community development for years • The dispute resolution role played by samaj to come. Humanitarian actors should be mindful committees in Rakhine pre-1992 has been of contributing to this dynamic. undermined by decades of Myanmar, and more recently Bangladesh, government interference. • Response actors should be careful to consider the Upon return, Rohingya communities will lack ways in which interventions with gender empow- local mechanisms for dealing with resource erment objectives could unintentionally put and interpersonal conflicts – a dynamic which women at risk if they do not also work with men. COAR: The Centre for Operational Analysis and Research | Limassol, Cyprus | www.coar-global.org Information Ecosystems 5 Rohingya in the camps have been able to pursue Introduction religious formation more freely than they could in Rakhine State. Given the continued limitations placed The ongoing crisis in Rakhine State is in no small way on religious freedoms for non-Buddhists within Rakhine defined by a lack of clear, timely, and trustworthy infor- State, it is highly likely that conflicts over interpre- mation. The Myanmar government-mandated internet tation and practice may emerge should refugees be black out, in place since June 2019, still affects four repatriated. townships of northern and central Rakhine State: the government of Bangladesh’s decision to severely curtail • Humanitarian actors should not assume that internet access inside the refugee camps has further all Rohingya Muslims share the same religious undermined information access in these areas. As a beliefs. Actors should be cognizant of tensions result, lack of access to independent media sources
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