Regional Focus: Asia

Publications:

2018 Human Security in South Eastern Myanmar (The Border Consortium, Nov. 2018) [text via ReliefWeb]

2019 Humanitarian Needs Overview:Afghanistan (OCHA, Dec. 2018) [text]

2019 Humanitarian Needs Overview: Myanmar (OCHA, Dec. 2018) [text]

Answering the Question: Should South Korea Accept Refugees? (The Interpreter Blog, Dec. 2018) [text]

Finding Solutions to Afghan Displacement Key to the Future, Grandi Says (UNHCR, Nov. 2018) [text]
- See also related UNHCR news story.

*The Involuntary Immobility of Bangkok’s Urban Refugees (UNU-GCM, April 2018) [text]

"Is Makassar a ‘Sanctuary City’? Migration Governance in Indonesia after the ‘Local Turn’," Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, vol. 11, no. 2 (Forthcoming, 2018) [open access]

"Making Refugees (Dis)Appear: Identifying Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Thailand and Malaysia," Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, vol. 11, no. 2 (Forthcoming, 2018) [open access]

"Promised Land and Homes, Sri Lankan Refugees to Return from India," Thomson Reuters Foundation News, 26 Oct. 2018 [text]

Returning to What? The Challenges Displaced Afghans Face in Securing Durable Solutions (Norwegian Refugee Council, Nov. 2018) [text via ReliefWeb]

Rohingya crisis:

Bangladesh: Halt Rohingya Repatriation Plan (Human Rights Watch, Nov. 2018) [text]

Capacity and Complementarity in the Rohingya Response in Bangladesh (ODI, Dec. 2018) [text]

"Erasing the Rohingya: Point of No Return," Reuters, 18 Dec. 2018 [access]

In a Myanmar Village, a Bamboo Fence Separates Rohingya and Rakhine Neighbours (IRIN, Nov. 2018) [text]

The Language Lesson: What We've Learned about Communicating with Rohingya Refugees (Translators without Borders, Dec. 2018) [text via ReliefWeb]

*"The Rohingya in Cox’s Bazar: When the Stateless Seek Refuge," Health and Human Rights Journal, vol. 20, no. 2 (Dec. 2018) [open access]

*Rohingya Influx Overview (RIO): Key Issues and Needs (ACAPS, Dec. 2018) [text via ReliefWeb]

Rohingya Want to Return, but Only if Rights and Safety are Guaranteed (Refugees Deeply, Nov. 2018) [text]

Statement of UNHCR on the Need to Create Conditions in Myanmar That are Conducive to Refugee Returns (UNHCR, Nov. 2018) [text]
- See also earlier UNHCR statement.

"'We can't go anywhere': Myanmar Closes Rohingya Camps but 'Entrenches Segregation'," Reuters, 5 Dec. 2018) [text]

"Would It Be Ethical for the U.N. Refugee Agency to Send Rohingya Back to Myanmar?," WP's Monkey Cage, 17 Dec. 2018 [text]

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Related posts:
- Regional Focus: Rohingya Crisis (14 Nov. 2018)
- Regional Focus: Asia (22 Oct. 2018)

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