Short pieces:
Australia has spent 25 years ‘stopping the boats’, but that’s not the same as controlling migration (The Conversation, Aug. 2026) [text]
Between Protection and Precarity: Progress, Limits and Deficiencies of Asylum Governance in Taiwan (RLI Blog, Sept. 2026) [text]
From Military Rule to Arakan Army: The Dilemma of Rohingya Repatriation (RLI Blog, Sept. 2026)[text]
Government recycles past failed policy with plan for time limit on asylum claims (RCOA, Sept. 2026) [text]
- Focuses on Australia.
Nepal Floods: UN And Partners Launch $49.6 Million Emergency Appeal (OCHA, Sept. 2026) [text]
New open access book:
Politics of Denial and Non-Recognition of Genocide: The Case of the Rohingya (Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2026) [open access]
- "While the mass atrocities against the Rohingya are well-documented, this book shows how recognition and accountability continue to be constrained by state denial, geopolitical diplomacy, and legal thresholds. Drawing on transdisciplinary backgrounds, the contributors reveal how the Rohingya have been systematically rendered stateless through denationalisation and state-sponsored narratives, which continue to shape the search for justice, including through the ongoing International Court of Justice case. The book’s distinctive contribution is to combine survivor-centred evidence with broader legal analysis. Organised in three parts, the chapters combine socio-legal analysis with empirical evidence from refugee camps, addressing structural violence, water insecurity, gender-based violence, domicide, media-framing, and the governance of protracted displacement. In doing so, the book goes beyond familiar accounts of displacement to show how genocide operates before, during, and after 2017 through genocidal denial. It connects Rohingya survivor testimony, grounded field evidence, and contemporary debates on genocidal intent, non-legal definitions, and post-atrocity governance."
Journal articles:
"Existential Refugees: An Insider Ethnography of the Being of Refugeehood among Malayaga Tamils in India," Statelessness & Citizenship Review, vol. 8, no. 1 (2026) [open access]
"Good Faith at Sea: Non-Refoulement, Maritime Interdiction and Malaysian Practice Under International Law," Laws, vol. 15, no. 5 (Aug. 2026) [open access]
"Irregular maritime migration and legal protections: the Rohingya refugee crisis," SN Social Sciences, Latest Articles, 6 Aug. 2026 [ResearchGate]
"Locating the 'local' in aid localisation: the case of humanitarian response in Myanmar," Development in Practice, Latest Articles, 10 Aug. 2026 [open access]
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