ABSTRACT
This article focuses on the experiences, aspirations, and challenges of the untold stories of the Rohingya minors in the camps in Bangladesh who have been dispossessed and displaced by and from their own soil, i.e. Myanmar. Numerous studies have addressed the various dynamics of Rohingya issues; however, an in-depth study on the predicament of the minors and their refugee life-politics from their own perspective is evidently scarce. This article hence attempts to construct a narrative of their life-politics addressing their lived experiences in the camps and investigating their future imaginaries. The concepts of ‘capacity to aspire’ and ‘identity-construction’ are used as theoretical standpoints. This article is based on ‘in-depth, informal, and semi-structured’ interviews with the minors, their parents in camps of Bangladesh, and some aid workers of INGOs between 2017 and 2019. Our data demonstrate that although lives in the camps are full of fear, uncertainty, and dilemma, the minors carry dreams and are eager to complete their education and pursue their career with the aim of having a bright future.
