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Picture a Refugee Nouvelles : Analyses 28 jan 2016 Partager Imprimer cette page Des réfugiés karens de la Birmanie jouent un rôle important dans la gestion de leurs propres camps. Crédit: Kevin Malseed By Kevin Malseed Picture in your mind a migrant. Now picture a refugee. Now an internally displaced person. Did the picture change? Last year the media reported on ‘migrants’ fleeing to Europe. Only when their stories gained attention did they become ‘refugees’, and the public response completely changed. Labels have this kind of power worldwide, including in Burma, where displaced people have many faces and stories, but with common threads. In Burma’s northwest, over a million Rohingya Muslims suddenly found themselves labelled “resident foreigners” or “Bengalis” when a 1982 law removed recognition of their long history in the country. Since then, repeated waves of attacks – sometimes by Burma’s military, sometimes by radical Buddhist mobs with government backing – have killed many, and displaced most from their homes and land. “Go back to Bangladesh,” Rohingyas are told, a country to which most have no connection. Many have paid traffickers to take them by boat to southern Thailand and smuggle them into Malaysia. Along the way many are killed or ransomed by traffickers, or towed out to sea and set adrift by Thai authorities. Almost no one, it seems, wants these people. Across Burma, people of other ethnicities have been displaced as a result of human rights abuses conducted by military forces with impunity. Many communities respond by remaining mobile in their home areas to evade military control. I once asked a woman, seven days after soldiers had burned her house, how long she had been displaced. Expecting to hear “seven days,” I was surprised when she said “seventeen years.” Hundreds of thousands are still internally displaced. Over a hundred thousand people with similar stories are still in refugee camps in Thailand. About half are ‘registered’ refugees because they arrived before 2005. The other half are ‘unregistered’, simply because Thai authorities stopped registering refugees after that. The ‘registered’ have had access to third-country resettlement, including to Canada. The ‘unregistered’ have not. Registered refugees found working outside the camp are sent back to the camp. Unregistered refugees doing the same are deported. A million others who fled to Thailand are living outside camps as ‘migrants’ working illegally in homes and sweatshops. For another 150,000 people in Malaysia, including a growing Rohingya population, this is the only option, because Malaysia refuses to sign the UN convention on refugees or allow camps. Regularly arrested and detained, they don’t get much international interest or help. Inter Pares uses your donations and Canadian government funding to support health care, livelihoods, capacity-building, human rights, and relief for Burma’s displaced people living in all of these different situations. Through local counterparts, we support refugees to run their own camps, and community-based organizations that are led and staffed by displaced people. The Canadian government has just approved five years of new funding for such initiatives, making it one of the few governments still doing so. Many funders have stopped supporting Burma’s displaced people, believing Burma’s displacement issues are over. We say, not yet. Labels are almost unavoidable, but they have a disproportionate impact on marginalization, solidarity, and assistance. At Inter Pares we believe in challenging labels and standing in support of people who are building more just and inclusive societies. Galerie2 imagesCliquer pour agrandir En savoir plus Our work in Burma Faire un commentaire You must have JavaScript enabled to use this form. Votre nom Comment * Sauvegarder Leave this field blank