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'This book provides a much needed in-depth and poignant examination of the experiences of Rohingya women in the refugee camps of Bangladesh, exploring the complex interplay of gender identity, relations, and roles amid the harsh realities of forced displacement. Rahman restores women as resilient social agents navigating and negotiating patriarchal structures, rather than writing off their experiences as being those of victims unable to attend to their own wellbeing. Her unique approach instead emphasizes the resilience and creative strategies deployed by the Rohingya women to reconstruct their lives and communities, chief among them being the 'Majhee' system. This refreshing focus on the quotidian aspects of life in the camps provides an insightful and much-needed contribution to our understanding of refugee experiences more broadly and of refugee women specifically. Overall, a brilliantly researched and compelling book that offers a crucial perspective on the world's most marginalized individuals, making it a highly relevant and significant read.' Azeem Ibrahim OBE, Director, Special Initiatives, New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy 'This extraordinary monograph weaves the politics of storytelling in the context of acutely gendered violence and ethnic cleansing among Rohingya people with the futures they forge as they remake 'home' in the refugee camps of Bangladesh. Rahman's exquisite research has clearly earned the trust of her informants, and reveals the horrid death and sexual violence against Rohingya by the Burmese military during what is often a forgotten humanitarian disaster of dispossession and genocide, but also the ways people are remaking home in a new place. This reflexive and original feminist ethnography grapples with the unspeakable crimes against humanity faced by the Rohingya, but goes well beyond their survival in the camps of Cox's Bazaar in Bangladesh, highlighting their presence, perseverance and strength under conditions not of their own making.' Jennifer Hyndman, Associate Vice-President of Research, York University

'After the Exodus is a refreshing addition to the literature of Rohingya camps in Bangladesh. The feminist lens that the book uses is very useful in casting light on the everyday lives of women. Through intense ethnographic details, life in the camps - the way that families regroup, new relationships formed, the problems with bringing up children in these cramped conditions, the issues surrounding marriage negotiations - are brought to life in vivid detail. The author has indeed successfully drawn us into the intricacies of negotiations that accompany these processes, as well as the fresh ways of problem solving that are brought into play.' Firdous Azim, Professor and Chair at the Department of English and Humanities at BRAC University, Dhaka 'This extraordinary monograph weaves the politics of storytelling in the context of acutely gendered violence and ethnic cleansing among Rohingya people with the futures they forge as they remake 'home' in the refugee camps of Bangladesh. Rahman's exquisite research has clearly earned the trust of her informants, and reveals the horrid death and sexual violence against the Rohingya by the Burmese military during what is often a forgotten humanitarian disaster of dispossession and genocide, but also the ways people are remaking home in a new place. This reflexive and original feminist ethnography grapples with the unspeakable crimes against humanity faced by the Rohingya, but goes well beyond their survival in the camps of Cox's Bazaar in Bangladesh, highlighting their presence, perseverance, and strength under conditions not of their own making.' Jennifer Hyndman, author of Managing Displacement: Refugees and the Politics of Humanitarianism (2000) 'This book provides a much-needed in-depth and poignant examination of the experiences of Rohingya women in the refugee camps of Bangladesh, exploring the complex interplay of gender identity, relations, and roles amid the harsh realities of forced displacement. Rahman restores women as resilient social agents navigating and negotiating patriarchal structures, rather than writing off their experiences as being those of victims unable to attend to their own wellbeing. Her unique approach instead emphasizes the resilience and creative strategies deployed by the Rohingya women to reconstruct their lives and communities, chief among them being the 'Majhee' system. This refreshing focus on the quotidian aspects of life in the camps provides an insightful and much-needed contribution to our understanding of refugee experiences more broadly and of refugee women specifically. Overall, a brilliantly researched and compelling book that offers a crucial perspective on the world's most marginalized individuals, making it a highly relevant and significant read.' Azeem Ibrahim OBE, author of The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide (2016)

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Farhana Afrin Rahman is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Isaac Newton Trust Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, as well as a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College Cambridge. Her research interests include gender, refugees and forced migration, international development, lived experiences, and violence and conflict, amongst others.

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