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This chapter provides the historical and socio-political contexts, the historical setting into which identities are constructed, indicating to examine the long-term root causes of displacement. In particular, it explores the ways in which ethnic difference has been manifested in pre-colonial and colonial history, and politicized the state-minority relationships in the post-independence modern day Burma/Myanmar . It attempts to unfold the power dynamics in Myanmar and situates various crises that led to the events of displacement and forced migration.
Every person born in any of the territories included within the Union, of parents both of whom are, or if they had been alive at the commencement of this Constitution would have been, citizens of the Union…
—The Constitution of the Union of Burma (1947, p. 2)
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Farzana, K.F. (2017). The Historical and Politico-Military Context of the Border. In: Memories of Burmese Rohingya Refugees. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58360-4_2
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