Framing statelessness and ‘belonging’: Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s The Daily Star newspaper

Stripped of Myanmarese citizenship in 1982 and persecuted for three decades, stateless Rohingya have long found precarious refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh. This study explores the framing of the Rohingya in Bangladesh’s largest circulating English language newspaper The Daily Star, to examine how...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:c192d8949138447685dadb962ce75ab62021-12-02T11:51:18ZFraming statelessness and ‘belonging’: Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s The Daily Star newspaper10.24135/pjr.v25i1and2.4721023-94992324-2035https://doaj.org/article/c192d8949138447685dadb962ce75ab62019-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/472https://doaj.org/toc/1023-9499https://doaj.org/toc/2324-2035 Stripped of Myanmarese citizenship in 1982 and persecuted for three decades, stateless Rohingya have long found precarious refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh. This study explores the framing of the Rohingya in Bangladesh’s largest circulating English language newspaper The Daily Star, to examine how one of the nation’s most prominent newspapers of record framed refugee migration into the country. Analysing two distinct random samples of news stories published on The Daily Star website between 1 December 2011– 31 November 2012 and 1 August 2017–31 October 2017, this article argues that The Daily Star’s press identity, defined though a nationalist frame, failed to successfully deliver human rights-based journalism though a globalist Fourth Estate imperative. Kasun UbayasiriAsia Pacific NetworkarticleBangladeshconflict mediaFourth Estatehuman rights journalismMyanmarjournalismCommunication. Mass mediaP87-96Journalism. The periodical press, etc.PN4699-5650ENPacific Journalism Review, Vol 25, Iss 1&2 (2019)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic Bangladesh
conflict media
Fourth Estate
human rights journalism
Myanmar
journalism
Communication. Mass media
P87-96
Journalism. The periodical press, etc.
PN4699-5650
spellingShingle Bangladesh
conflict media
Fourth Estate
human rights journalism
Myanmar
journalism
Communication. Mass media
P87-96
Journalism. The periodical press, etc.
PN4699-5650
Kasun Ubayasiri
Framing statelessness and ‘belonging’: Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s The Daily Star newspaper
description Stripped of Myanmarese citizenship in 1982 and persecuted for three decades, stateless Rohingya have long found precarious refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh. This study explores the framing of the Rohingya in Bangladesh’s largest circulating English language newspaper The Daily Star, to examine how one of the nation’s most prominent newspapers of record framed refugee migration into the country. Analysing two distinct random samples of news stories published on The Daily Star website between 1 December 2011– 31 November 2012 and 1 August 2017–31 October 2017, this article argues that The Daily Star’s press identity, defined though a nationalist frame, failed to successfully deliver human rights-based journalism though a globalist Fourth Estate imperative.
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title Framing statelessness and ‘belonging’: Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s The Daily Star newspaper
title_short Framing statelessness and ‘belonging’: Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s The Daily Star newspaper
title_full Framing statelessness and ‘belonging’: Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s The Daily Star newspaper
title_fullStr Framing statelessness and ‘belonging’: Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s The Daily Star newspaper
title_full_unstemmed Framing statelessness and ‘belonging’: Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s The Daily Star newspaper
title_sort framing statelessness and ‘belonging’: rohingya refugees in bangladesh’s the daily star newspaper
publisher Asia Pacific Network
publishDate 2019
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