Those who are considered refugees in Bangladesh are obliged to live in government-run camps. The largest group in these camps are the Islamic Biharis. They have been in this region for sixty years now, but still have no official status. The Biharis came from East Pakistan, but at the outbreak of the civil war in Pakistan in 1971 sided with Islamic West Pakistan. After the war East Pakistan became Bangladesh. It regards the Biharis as traitors, while Pakistan refuses to take them in for fear of being overwhelmed with refugees. Since then the Biharis have been stateless, and live under miserable conditions in Bangladesh.

Andrew Biraj (b. 1982, Bangladesh) is a staff photographer for The Daily New Age in Bangladesh. He also regularly supplies photos for the Drik Picture Library, located in Dhaka.