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Now that Maung has learned about the history of the Rohingya community, he begins working towards an escape route. He hopes to leave the refugee camp and get an education so that he can advocate for his community. But his freedom of movement is limited and educational resources are scarce. This week, host Ngofeen Mputubwele charts Maung’s journey out of the refugee camp in Bangladesh and into New York City.
But even when Maung, and other refugees like him, settle into their new homes, the human rights abuses they have suffered linger. How is mental health impacted not only by past atrocities, but also by the current systemic mistreatment of refugees? And with refugees becoming political flash points across the world, what can be done to support refugee communities around the globe?
Maung Sawyeddollah: Agent of Change, Rohingya Muslim
Philippe Bolopion: Executive Director, Human Rights Watch
Nadia Hardman: Researcher, Refugee and Migrant Rights Division at Human Rights Watch
Emina Ćerimović: Associate Director, Disability Rights Division at Human Rights Watch
Spyros Orfanos: Director, New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
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Now that he’s arrived in Bangladesh, Maung finds himself stuck in an in-between. He’s safe from the violence he faced in his home state of Rakhine, Myanmar, but there are restrictions on his freedom of movement, limiting his education and leaving him to grapple with the history that brought his community to the world’s largest refugee camp.
In this episode, host Ngofeen Mputubwele traces this history. Within the story of ethnic cleansing and apartheid enacted upon the ethnic Rohingya community, other big themes rise up. Witnesses and experts recount the role that social media played in Maung’s trajectory, and point to other communities facing this crisis across the globe.
Maung Sawyeddollah: Agent of Change, Rohingya Muslim
Matt Schissler: Lecturer in history and anthropology at the University of Melbourne
Htaike Htaike Aung: Director of the Myanmar Internet Project
Kaamil Ahmed: Journalist for The Guardian; author of "I Feel No Peace"
Shayna Bauchner: Researcher, Asia Division at Human Rights Watch
Maria Ressa: Nobel Peace Prize laureate; co-founder and CEO of Rappler
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When Maung and his family, his neighbors, strangers, cross the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh, they are officially refugees. But there’s no rest for the weary, and the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees escaping to Bangladesh have to build a refugee camp for themselves. As Maung helps his family assemble a temporary shelter, a sort of shadow city starts to rise up around them. Almost a decade later, Maung’s family is still in Cox's Bazar.
This week, Maung, other refugees and experts take listeners through a tour of life in the world’s largest refugee camp and life as a refugee more broadly.
Maung Sawyeddollah: Agent of Change, Rohingya Muslim
Chinda Precious: Nigerian refugee
Johannes van der Klaauw: Former representative at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Tamanna Tiku: Urban Designer
Mausi Segun: Executive Director of the Africa Division at Human Rights Watch
Nadia Hardman: Researcher, Refugee and Migrant Rights Division at Human Rights Watch
Kyle Knight: Former Associate Director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program at Human Rights Watch
Belkis Wille: Associate Director of Crisis & Conflict division at Human Rights Watch.
Emina Ćerimović: Associate Director, Disability Rights Division at Human Rights Watch
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When anti-Rohingya sentiment turned into gunshots in Myanmar in 2017, 16-year-old Maung Sawyeddollah was forced to flee. But what do you do when you’re forced to leave your home? Where do you go? This week on The Great Unrooting, host Ngofeen Mputubwele asks how migrants get from here to there.
What happens if you need medicine while you’re traveling or are living with disabilities that make traveling difficult? What challenges do migrants face as they make these strenuous journeys?
This week, we hear from people around the world who have faced these questions. We hear about Maung’s mom, who fled while pregnant. Her story, alongside accounts from HRW researchers, paints a picture of resilience and bravery of the migrants who risk everything in pursuit of safety.
Maung Sawyeddollah: Agent of Change, Rohingya Muslim
Nadia Hardman: Researcher, Refugee and Migrant Rights Division at Human Rights Watch
Emina Ćerimović: Associate Director, Disability Rights Division at Human Rights Watch
Lindsay Mputubwele: Doula and child-birth educator
Chinda Precious: Nigerian refugee
Hanaa Rahimi: Former Afghan policewoman sharing her story under alias
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Maung Sawyeddollah grew up in a small town in Myanmar where, for years, life felt ordinary. That was before the rumors began. Social media fueled sectarian division, communities turned against each other. Then the soldiers arrived. It was a balmy night in August 2017 when Maung first heard the sound of gunfire. His family was forced to make an impossible choice: stay in the home they love or embark on a perilous journey to Bangladesh. They grabbed a few belongings and fled.
Through Maung’s extraordinary story—from fleeing for his life in Myanmar to attending the prestigious New York University—this episode explores the moment Maung’s family made the fateful decision to abandon their home, and the heart-wrenching decisions millions of people face when the world they know becomes unlivable.
The Great Unrooting begins with one life, and opens onto a global story of displacement, resilience, and hope.
Maung Sawyeddollah: Agent of Change, Rohingya Muslim
Mausi Segun: Executive Director of the Africa Division at Human Rights Watch
Nadia Hardman: Researcher, Refugee and Migrant Rights Division at Human Rights Watch
Kyle Knight: Associate Director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program at Human Rights Watch
Belkis Wille: Associate Director of Crisis & Conflict division at Human Rights Watch
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Welcome to The Great Unrooting, a five-episode narrative podcast special season of Rights & Wrongs that explores what it means to lose home — and what it takes to start again. Anchored in the story of Maung, a Rohingya refugee now living in New York, the series traces his journey of flight, survival, and rebuilding and explores displacement at a moment when more people are forcible displaced than at any point since World War II.
Excerpt from forthcoming poem, "The Rusted Key" by Kumar M. Tiku.
