“Are Children Terrorists?”

This chapter examines the stereotypes built up around the Rohingya community, now under extreme persecution. The complexities of ideological constructs defining alien bodies are examined in relation to globalization, racism, cosmopolitanism, and national and community identities. Channa contends that the process of racialization is tied to power dynamics and economic competition, reshaping images of otherness and nearness in racialized ways. She argues that the “self” is as diversified as the “other”. The part of the self that demonizes the other, demonizes itself first. Racialization, she concludes, begins from within.