Rohingyas are the stateless, mostly Muslim ethnic minority group of people who have been living in Myanmar for centuries, but the country does not recognize their citizenship rights. Even the term ‘Rohingya’ is still banned in Myanmar though the term has been accepted globally. This short article aims to find out the historical background and present status of the term ‘Rohingya’ where information has been collected from different sources predominantly from scholarly articles and through the in-depth interviews of the Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh and New Zealand.
