Examining the Journey of Rohingya Refugees from Myanmar to Cox's Bazar : A Comparative Analysis of Displacement and the Search for Durable Solutions

The Myanmar government‘s systematic oppression of the Rohingya ethnic minority reached a boiling point with the conceptualisation of violence and displacement in 2017. This caused mass migration and the settling of over 700,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. This migration greatly strained Bangladesh‘s infrastructure and resources (Howlader et al., 2025). Even after addressing this with various humanitarian organisations, the issues remain. This thesis explores the crisis coverage by The Daily Star, Bangladesh, and The Guardian, UK, attempting to dissect the problems of escalation, diplomacy, humanitarian conditions, and the prospects of sustainable solutions. This analysis focuses on framing and agenda setting, discourse on public perception, and the resulting policy. In this document, I qualitatively analysed articles from 2023 to 2025 published in the national and international domains to explore the cross and diverging perspectives. The overwhelming trend in Bangladeshi media coverage focuses solely on the crisis, whereas international media coverage prioritises human rights and humanitarian issues. Although the focus of the study would not be prescribing solutions relative to the boundaries of an MA thesis, rather‚ it would be in advancing the understanding of mediated representations of the narratives. This would aid in understanding how the discourse shaped the domestic and international reactions to the Rohingya crisis for policymakers, humanitarian workers, and scholars.