Financial Express
Hasnat M Alamgir
Published: March 02, 2022
Refugee populations represent one of the most marginalised groups in whichever host country they come to settle and this is clearly the case with Rohingya population, a majority of whom are now living in Bangladesh. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) defined a refugee as someone who "owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to, or owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country".At the end of 2020, there were more than 82 million forcibly displaced people worldwide as a consequence of violence, oppression, war/conflict, human rights abuses and serious public order-disturbing events.