Berkley Center

Jocelyne Cesari discusses how religion shapes the perception of and the policies toward refugees, specifically focusing on the religiosity gap between refugees and nationals of the receiving countries, and the secularization of religion in general and Islam in particular.

The Rohingya, a largely Muslim ethnic minority group, face systematic persecution in Myanmar (Burma) and as a result many are refugees or internally displaced within Myanmar. Denied citizenship rights since 1982, they are the “world’s largest stateless population.”

Katherine Marshall examines four key features of the Myanmar Rohingya refugee situation as a case study of the complexity of religious dimensions of contemporary forced migration challenges.