Shahirah Majumdar- Foreign Returned

Season 4 - Episode 24: "It was an unexpected part of my life. At
the time, I was working as a freelance journalist, and I was
doing a lot of reporting for Vice. I happened to be in Bangladesh
just for a couple of months, and I was living with my parents in
Dhaka for Eid. Suddenly, the crisis just happened all of a sudden
in August 2017. I started to see a lot of news stories about the
crisis, and my dad just said, 'why don't you go down to Cox's
Bazar and see what's going on? You should probably go report on
it since you're right here in Bangladesh.' So that's what I did,
and I had never done any conflict reporting before. I had only
been reporting on refugees in the US. It's a very different
context reporting on refugees, the settlements, problems that
they face, and integrating into American society than refugees in
Bangladesh. Nothing would have prepared me for what I saw in
Cox's Bazar.





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