Rohingya's Discrimination and Immigration to Malaysia Hamzah Intan Suria*, Daud Sity, Idris Nor Azizan * Program of Political Sciences, Department of History, Politic and Strategy, National University of Malaysia, 43600, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia Online published on 28 July, 2016. Abstract Nowadays, cross-border migration has involved the displacement of millions of people around the world to migrate either as workers, illegal immigrants or refugees. With rapidly developing country status, based on the stability of the economic, political and social development and has a large Muslims population, Malaysia also managed to attract the attention of millions of illegal immigrants migration. This study has identified the causes of migration of Rohingya ethnic refugees from Myanmar to Malaysia. Next, examines the Rohingya contemporary issues by highlighting the trends of human trafficking in 2015 and how the refugees came into Malaysia. Primer data were collected thru structural interview with informants that have connection in cross-border and refugees in Malaysia. Meantime, secondary data were collected thru library research base on empirical study, migration books, newspapers and online data. The study found that the inclusion of illegal immigrants or refugees has created problems for the country, through the issue of illegal cross-border, human trafficking and great challenge for government to accept Rohingyas in which they are long-term issues. Top Keywords Rohingya refugees, Myanmar, illegal immigrants, human trafficking, Islam. Top |