Rohingya Refugees in Malaysia: Rhetoric vs Reality / Shimaa Shazana Mohd Ali ... [et al.]

• Main Authors: Mohd Ali, Shimaa Shazana, Ahmad, Yarina, Tahir, Nor Suziwana, Ayob, Nor Azira
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Human settlements; Political science; JS Local government. Municipal government
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/54968/1/54968.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/54968/

The issue of Rohingya refugees is not new in Malaysia. It has existed since the end of the 1970s and escalated by the 1980s (Kassim, 2015; Letchamanan, 2013). However, some scholars argue that their first arrival was in the late 1990s (Palik, 2020). Despite many measures undertaken by the Malaysian...