08 November 2019

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 1

Event:

Call for registration: Fourth Annual Research & Orientation Workshop & International Conference on Refugees and Migrants: Issues of Protection, Rights and Justice, Kolkata, India, 25-29 November 2019 [info]

Blog posts & press:

"Friends from Hong Kong: Taiwan’s Refugee Problem," The Diplomat, 23 Oct. 2019 [text]

A Promise as a Right (RefLaw Blog, Nov. 2019) [text]
- Discusses a South Korean case in which "courts grappled with whether refugees were entitled to disability benefits and how to define that right, making the first major decision on refugee rights in Korea." Provides examination of Korean refugee law.

"Sri Lanka's New Asylum Route: A 4,000-km Journey across the Indian Ocean," The New Humanitarian, 10 Oct. 2019 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Guofu Liu, Chinese Refugee Law (Brill, Oct. 2019) [info]
- This volume "offers a comprehensive, up-to-date, and readily accessible reference to Chinese refugee law. It focuses first on existing laws and practices relating to refugees in China, then offering a scholar's proposal for a law to handle with refugee affairs and implement the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees."

"Determinants of Return Intentions among Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of Marawi City, Philippines," Development in Practice, Latest Articles, 8 Oct. 2019 [abstract]

"Empowerment in the Asylum-seeker Regime? The Roles of Policies, the Non-profit Sector and Refugee Community Organizations in Hong Kong," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 6 Nov. 2019 [abstract]

An Experimental Study on the Social Trust and Cooperation of North Korean Refugees, Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics, no. 25 ((Philipps-University of Marburg, 2019) [text]

Frozen Frontier: Uti Possidetis and the Decolonization of South Asia, RSC Working Paper, no. 130 (Refugee Studies Centre, Oct. 2019) [text]
- Note: "Uti possidetis is a rule of customary international law that is applied to delimit the borders of newly formed states. Wherever a previously unified territory is to give way to two or more states, this rule dictates that the international frontiers of such states cannot be drawn de novo; instead, their borders must be selected from pre-existing administrative boundaries that run through the territory."

"Immigration Judicial Review in Hong Kong: The Developing Legal Framework," Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law, vol. 33, no. 2 (2019) [preprint]

Lost Generation: The Health and Human Rights of North Korean Children, 1990-2018 (Johns Hopkins Univ., Oct. 2019) [text]
- Chapters 6 & 7 focus on North Korean refugees in China, South Korea and the U.S.

Refugee Movements in Southeast Asia: 2018-June 2019 (UNHCR, Oct. 2019) [access]

Revue EuropĂ©enne des Migrations Internationales, vol. 35, nos.  1&2 (2019) [contents]
- Special issue on Asia Pacific migration. The editorial is freely available. Note: REMI is a delayed open access journal; articles will become free to read after one year.

South Asia Short Course on Refugee Rights and Advocacy, Kathmandu, 13-18 June 2019 [report]

Unsafe at Home, Unsafe Abroad: State Obligations towards Refugees and Asylum-seekers in Sri Lanka (Amnesty International, Nov. 2019) [text]

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Regional Focus: Asia Pacific (8 Oct. 2019)

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