transnational mobility occurs, as well as its impact on camp families. While not a political economy study, Navigating at the Margins aims to provide analysis and recommendations to improve the well-being of Rohingya on both sides of the Myanmar-Bangladesh border and throughout the region. unavailable to researchers and demographers. Despite the legacy of family counting, Rohingya were deliberately not enumerated in the 2014 census. This was Myanmar’s first census in 30 years and would have provided more insight into Rohingya population demographics.9 Humanitarian and policy actors have undertaken periodic population assessments and a registration exercise in the camps, which have focused on the composition of camp households. In contrast, this study contributes insights into overall family composition, including both camp residents and their relatives not living in the camps. Because much of Rohingya people’s movement across borders is extralegal and illicit, it is difficult to determine the extent to which families have become separated and to understand the social and emotional effects of this separation. The lack of available data about the Rohingya population also makes it difficult to calculate the severity of recent conflict and displacement—not just in regard to population shifts and the number of lives lost, but also in terms of lost assets and the impact on household economy. The extent of the displaced Rohingya community’s losses of assets, livelihoods, and intact family units may never be satisfactorily calculated. However, better insights can be distilled by documenting camp residents’ own experiences with these themes. In addition to the impediments created by restrictions on media access and travel to northern Rakhine State, the lack of public access to baseline population data makes it difficult to measure with precision the drastic shifts that have recently occurred within the Rohingya population. For decades, the government of Myanmar has maintained family lists in order to count and track the country’s population, but this information remains largely By collecting details from camp families about the journeys of their relatives elsewhere, as well as their current socioeconomic conditions and livelihoods, this study fills in some of these gaps by shedding light on Rohingya people’s transnational mobility and its impacts. The Asia Foundation and the Centre for Peace and Justice intend these findings to support policymaking and programming to create sustainable political solutions to the Rohingya crisis. As displacement becomes protracted, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh strive to improve their living conditions in the face of an uncertain future. Here, a woman applies earthen plaster to make the walls of her shelter more durable. 10