Framing of Rohingya Refugees and Repatriation Response in the Bangladeshi Newspapers

This research investigates the portrayal of the Rohingya refugee in Bangladeshi newspapers from August 2017 to December 2023. The UN considers Rohingya as the world’s most abused minorities, with the current population exceeding a million. The force in Myanmar launched a savage campaign against the Rohingya folks living in the Rakhine State area in 2017. The massacre partly destroyed Rohingya settlements and involved atrocities like beatings, murder, and rape. The federal government of Bangladesh supplied haven for the displaced people along with humanitarian aid. It is on this basis that this study uses quantitative and qualitative frame analyses of 374 news stories and opinion pieces from two English daily newspapers, the Daily Star and Dhaka Tribune to unearth specific frames employed by the newspapers to represent the crisis and repatriation response. The study finds that the newspapers of Bangladesh use thirteen frames to portray the Rohingya crisis and repatriation response: repatriation efforts, humanitarian assistance, discrimination, diplomatic negotiation, cooperation and interest, situation and crime committed against Rohingyas, and negative administrative action. The study also finds that Dhaka Tribune and The Daily Star differ in both newspapers' report of the crisis and repatriation response, with Dhaka Tribune’s use of national security threats may be linked to ownership patterns with the Bangladeshi government, based on a parliament member's shareholding. Newspapers heavily cite government officials, public affairs, social critics, and international institutions for reporting on the Rohingya crisis. Observing these outcomes, the research study proposes different pointers for policy plan, and also recommends locations for more study thinking about the constraints that have actually been determined.