The massive influx of Rohingya refugees into Bangladesh, fleeing a campaign of violence and terror
by the Myanmar military, has had a profound impact on the local communities of Cox’s Bazar and
Bandarban districts. At one point, the exodus unfolded as one of the fastest-growing refugee crises in
history. According to Huang et al. (2018), Bangladesh received more refugees in the first three weeks of
the influx (in August 2017) than all of Europe received in 2016 during the Syrian crisis. With less than 0.31
per cent of the earth’s population, Bangladesh hosts 4.7 per cent of its total refugees.
