Carolyn Morris is a master’s student in Migration Studies at the University of Oxford’s Department of International Development. After graduating from university, she moved to Malaysia to work with a community center, where her role involved co-launching a livelihood program with Rohingya women. Afterwards, she worked with the International Rescue Committee in a refugee community in the U.S., also engaging with the Rohingya community there. Morris’ experiences revealed a gap in anthropological research on Rohingya heritage that inspired her involvement in grassroots organizations, story–telling projects, and academic initiatives focused on preserving and revitalizing Rohingya cultural and religious identity post-genocide. Find her LinkedIn profile here.
Their forced diaspora has put the cultural heritage of the embattled ethnic people in danger of erasure. As older generations die out, so is a sense of shared identity.
Since the latest iteration of the genocide of the Rohingya people by the Myanmar military began in August 2017, the Rohingya have faced state-sponsored discrimination, violence, and threats to their ethnic identity.
