Born Into Hospitality – Are Second-Generation Refugees Temporary Guests or Residents "at Home"?
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While the focus on the Rohingya refugees in Thailand tends to be on those who fled from Arakan/Rakhine State due to their violent persecution by the military regime, this paper focuses on the second generation of Rohingya born and/or growing up in Thailand. Based on an ethnographic inquiry, I argue that despite the state’s hospitality towards refugees, migrants, and stateless people, second-generation Rohingya create routes of home in Thailand. Focusing on the life story of Shafak, I show that second-generation Rohingya's sense of home is forged through floating intimate ties that allow them to secure their lives in Thailand and remake their homes elsewhere if needed. Though constructed as a ‘national security threat’ and perceived as unwelcome guests by the government, second-generation Rohingya act as residents and become residents at the margins of the nation-state where its sovereignty over territory and people remains challenged. I will demonstrate this specifically in Thailand's so-called deep South. In the end, I claim that second-generation Rohingya's routes of home along the thresholds of the nation-state beg the question of whether they can still legitimately be viewed only as 'temporary guests.’
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ทัศนะ ข้อคิดเห็น ภาพที่ปรากฏในวารสารเล่มนี้ เป็นความคิดเห็นส่วนตัวของผู้เขียน บรรณาธิการและกองบรรณาธิการไม่จำเป็นต้องเห็นพ้องและไม่ถือเป็นความรับผิดชอบ ลิขสิทธิ์ในบทความเป็นของผู้เขียนและสถาบันสิทธิมนุษยชนและสันติศึกษา มหาวิทยาลัยมหิดล ห้ามผลิตซ้ำ เก็บในระบบที่ค้นหาได้ หรือเผยแพร่ต่อส่วนใดส่วนหนึ่งของวารสารเว้นแต่จะได้รับอนุญาตเป็นลายลักษณ์อักษรจากบรรณาธิการ หรือได้รับอนุญาตตามกฎหมาย หรือตามเงื่อนไขขององค์กรลิขสิทธิ์ภาพถ่ายหรือกราฟฟิก สงวนลิขสิทธิ์ในการนำไปใช้ประโยชน์ในเชิงพาณิชย์ การนำไปใช้โปรดอ้างอิงให้ถูกต้องตามหลักวิชาการ
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