Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Blog posts & press:

Caught Between Coronavirus and Islamophobia Rohingya Refugees in India Have Nowhere to Turn (RLI Blog, April 2020) [text]

COVID-19 No Excuse to Sacrifice Rohingya Lives at Sea (Amnesty International, April 2020) [text]
- See also related APRRN statement and VOA News story.

*The Danger of Disease in the World's Largest Refugee Camp (The Interpreter Blog, April 2020) [text]

"Refugees in Asia Face Delays, Pushbacks as Coronavirus Shuts Borders," Thomson Reuters Foundation News, 20 March 2020 [text]

Rohingya Refugees in Coronavirus Darkness in Bangladesh, Malaysia and on Seas in Between (Medium, April 2020) [text]

Suspension of Afghan Refugee Repatriation from Pakistan a Short-term Solution to a Long-term Problem (APRRN, March 2020) [text]

"The World’s Refugee System is Broken," The Atlantic, 29 Feb. 2020 [text]
- Focuses on Japan.

Reports & journal articles:


COVID-19: Projecting the Impact in Rohingya Refugee Camps and Beyond (Johns Hopkins Univ., March 2020) [text]

Human Rights in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Review of 2019 (Amnesty International, April 2020) [text]

"India and the Rohingya," McGill International Review, 14 March 2020 [full-text]

"Migration Patterns in East and Southeast Asia: Causes and Consequences," Annual Review of Sociology, Review in Advance, 6 April 2020 [free full-text]

"Moving Towards Culturally Competent Health Systems for Migrants? Applying Systems Thinking in a Qualitative Study in Malaysia and Thailand," PLoS ONE 15(4): e0231154 (April 2020) [open access]

Ninth Meeting of the Asia Dialogue on Forced Migration, Dhaka, 19-20 Feb. 2020 [access]
- Follow link for background documents, briefing papers and co-conveners' statement.

Parliamentary Briefing on Legal Framework for Refugees in Malaysia (APRRN, Feb. 2020) [text]

Quarterly Mixed Migration Update: Asia, Quarter 1, 2020 (Mixed Migration Centre, April 2020) [text]

*The Rohingya Response in Bangladesh and the Global Compact on Refugees: Lessons, Challenges and Opportunities (ODI, April 2020) [text]

Synthesis of Rohingya Response Evaluations of IOM, UNICEF and UNHCR (Dec. 2019) [text]

"The World’s Largest Refugee Camp Prepares for COVID-19," BMJ, 26 March 2020 [text]
- Focuses on Rohingya in Bangladesh.

Resources:

Rohingya Refugees Law & Policy Database (Refugee Solidarity Network) [access via Airtable]
- "This database is meant for practitioners, researchers, community members and others working on the Rohingya refugee issue in the region. It currently compiles more than 700 documents, including primary resources such as legislation and court judgments as well as secondary resources and commentaries." See also explanatory video.

Weekly Digest on Rohingya in Bangladesh (Refugee Solidarity Network) [access]
- "Given the complexities involving the global, regional, and national response to what has been described as a genocide, and a rapidly changing context in Bangladesh, RSN and partners identified a need for greater information-sharing among actors in the field. To that end, RSN compiles a weekly developments tracker, focusing primarily on news coming out of Bangladesh, but including regional and international perspectives."

*UPDATED

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific (18 Feb. 2020)