Worldview on Gender and fertility of The Rohingya Community
- October 10, 2020
- Posted by: RSIS
- Categories: IJRISS, Sociology
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume IV, Issue IX, September 2020 | ISSN 2454–6186
Worldview on Gender and fertility of The Rohingya Community
Tayab Uddin, Md. Sawgat Khan
Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Science, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh
Abstract: Currently Bangladesh is facing a momentous Rohingya crisis. Population is the main issue of the Rohingya crisis. More than half of the population is dependent and it is increasing fast because of their higher fertility rate. So, to understand their fertility behavior first we have to know their worldview. After a deep understanding of the population’s worldview upcoming schemes on Rohingyas will be successful. The present study attempts to discover the underlying factors that influence the worldview of the Rohingya community regarding their fertility and gender relation. Generally, it seems that religion is the main factor for the fertility behavior of Rohingya. But the study found that religion plays an indirect role in the worldview of the Rohingya community. Survival from extinction, longer family time, culture, security, early marriage, gender discrimination, resistance to contraceptives plays a very important role and have direct impacts on fertility behavior of Rohingyas. Manipulative use of religion, lack of education, less demand from life, living with less support for the above characteristics make the Rohingya Issue much more complicated. And at the end, the social structure of Rohingyas, oppressive government, highly traditional society shapes all characteristics that are responsible for the world view of Rohingya community about fertility. The study is guided by a qualitative research method. The study was conducted based on both primary and secondary data. Case study and FGD are used to collect data.
Key Words: Worldview, traditional society, Population, Fertility Behavior, Rohingya, survival strategy, Fatalistic, religiosity, sexism, patriarchy, Maulana.
I. INTRODUCTION
According to the report of UNHCR 2017, Myanmar is the 4th refugee producing country after Syria, Afghanistan and South Sudan. Bangladesh is the 7th refugee hosting country after Germany, and the number of refugees is 9, 32,200. Recently it crossed 1.1 million Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh. An estimated 537,000 Rohingya have been driven into Bangladesh [1]. 51% of them are children [1]. The momentum and scale of arrivals make this the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis.
