08 November 2022

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Blog posts & press:

Forced returns to Myanmar must stop immediately, says Türk (OHCHR, Oct. 2022) [text]
- See also related UNHCR news comment and briefing note.

Malaysia: Surge in Summary Deportations to Myanmar (Human Rights Watch, Oct. 2022) [text]

"Malaysia Mulls Closing UN Refugee Agency Office, Sparking Refoulement Fears," VOA News, 1 Nov. 2022 [text]

October 2022 Budget: What it says about refugee issues (Kaldor Centre, Oct. 2022) [text]
- Focuses on Australia.

"Thailand Sets Long-Awaited Rules for Vetting Asylum Seekers," VOA News, 23 Oct. 2022 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Affective borderings: Sovereignty and Tibetan refugee placemaking at the Nepal/China borderlands," Political Geography, vol. 99 (Nov. 2022) [extended abstract]
- See also related dissertation.

Asia and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 31, no. 3 (Sept. 2022) [contents]
- Special issue on "The Politics of Sanitization: Pandemic Crisis, Migration and Development in Asia-Pacific." The introduction is freely available and two articles are open access.

Coping with Shocks: Migration and the Road to Resilience (World Bank, Nov. 2022) [text]
- Focuses on South Asia.

"Mental Health and Perceived Social Support of Humanitarian Workers in Bangladesh During the COVID-19 Pandemic," Intervention, vol. 20, no. 2 (2022) [open access]

"Ordering the Repatriation of the Rohingya," Virginia Journal of International Law Online, vol. 62 (2021) [full-text]

"The role of interviewer ethnicity on survey responses: A case study in refugee camps in Bangladesh," Survey Practice, 29 Sept. 2022 [open access]

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