BANGLADESH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND STRATEGIC STUDIES

Role of Media in Representation of Forced Migrants: A Study on Rohingya Ceisis in Bangladesh

Author: Maria Hussain & Khan Kamrula Tusi

DOI Link: https://www.doi.org/10.56888/BIISSj2023v42nS1a4

ABSTRACT

Media plays a key role in forced displacement or refugee alike situation and help to generate public awareness and support. At the same time, it plays a direct or indirect role to influence the national policy and foreign policy of a state. The role of the media in covering the news on refugee or forced migration influences international, regional, national and local actors. For a long time, Bangladesh is going throu.gh a forced migration crisis. Bangladesh is a host country of persecuted Rohingyas from Myanmar. The most recent influx of the Rohingya community from Myanmar took place in August 2017. Considering agenda-setting and news framing methods of media, this article is an attempt to understand the role of national media in representing the Rohingya crisis. Moreover, Johan Gultung's peace and/or war journali sm indicators help to find out the response of the national media towards the recent Rohingya influx. The purposive sampling method was followed to select the national media as a sample of this study which emphasized on versatility of news presentation style and acceptance among the mass people. Eventually, this article concludes that the agenda-setting and news framing of national media and its response in Bangladesh were peace journalism oriented.