28 December 2020

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Opportunity:

Call for registration: The Rohingya Refugee Crisis: Reflections from the Region, 21 January 2021 [info]

Blog posts:

The Bangladeshi Infiltrator in the Courtroom (Border Criminologies Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

COVID-19’s impact on Rohingya and Bangladeshi adolescents in Cox’s Bazar (UNHCR Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

Defying Hopelessness: Navigating the Humanitarian-Security Nexus within the Discourses of Irregular Migration post-Andaman Sea Crisis (Kaldor Centre, Dec. 2020) [text]

Looking ahead: Human rights standards in the context of protection at sea (Kaldor Centre, Dec. 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Addressing COVID-ified maritime migration in the Bay of Bengal: the case of stateless Rohingya boat people," Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean Affairs, vol. 12, no. 3 (2020) [free full-text]

Asia-Pacific Migration Report 2020: Assessing Implementation of the Global Compact for Migration (ESCAP et al., Dec. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

"'There We Are Nothing, Here We Are Nothing!' The Enduring Effects of the Rohingya Genocide," Social Sciences, vol. 9, no 11 (Nov. 2020) [open access]
- See also related blog post.

"Torture My Mind": The Right to Mental Health for Rohingya Survivors of Genocide in Myanmar and Bangladesh (Fortify Rights, Dec. 2020) [text]

"Towards ‘shared’ and ‘complex’ disaster governance in Bangladesh: The 2017 Rohingya Exodus," International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, vol. 39 (Oct. 2019) [preprint]

"'We are in the process': The exploitation of hope and the political economy of waiting among the aspiring irregular migrants in Nepal," Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, OnlineFirst, 9 Sept. 2020 [open access]

Multimedia:

HK Asylum Guide (Justice Centre Hong Kong & Freshfields) [info]
- A mobile app designed to help asylum seekers in Hong Kong understand their legal rights.

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