ABSTRACT
As places of transition, corridors shelter species – including humans – that flow from one place to another. Humans in transition can host multiple identities rather than affirming a singular identity associated with a singular space, race, or religion. This chapter argues that ‘Rohingya-ness’ is born along with mobility in defiance of fixed spaces and identities. The identities of Sittwe Muslims metamorphose, mutate, and camouflage as they physically and socially transition in and out of their chosen and forced places and confinements. Their multiple identities other than Rohingya challenge colonial ethnographic studies as well as the imaginings of champions of global rights as to who the Rohingyas are. The Rohingya identity of Sittwe Muslims has been strengthened by their mobile state, physically and socially.
