Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 1

Blog posts & press:

Beyond the Coup in Myanmar: The Views of Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh (Just Security Blog, June 2021) [text]

Bihar farmers protest flood embankments to protect livelihoods (The Third Pole, June 2021) [text via PreventionWeb]

The case for communication: COVID-19 in Cox’s Bazar (Media Action Insight Blog, June 2021) [text]

- See also related BBC research project.

The dispersal of displaced persons in the British empire and beyond: from World War Two to the Partition of India (Refugee History Blog, June 2021) [text]

"India: Fire rips through Rohingya camp, leaving hundreds homeless," Al Jazeera, 13 June 2021 [text]

India’s Problematic Stance on Non-Refoulement: The Deportation of Rohingyas (RLI Blog, June 2021) [text]

Report: Panel Discussion on Teaching Migration in South Asia (Refugee Watch Online, June 2021) [text]

Reports:

An Island Jail in the Middle of the Sea’: Bangladesh’s Relocation of Rohingya Refugees to Bhasan Char (Human Rights Watch, June 2021) [text]

Like We Were Enemies in a War’: China’s Mass Internment, Torture, and Persecution of Muslims in Xinjiang (Amnesty International, June 2021) [text]

Migrant Labour in Malaysia: Challenges Amplified by COVID-19, MIER Policy Brief, no. 8 (Malaysian Institute of Economic Research, Feb. 2021) [text]

Protection risks facing Rohingya refugees en route to Malaysia (Mixed Migration Centre, June 2021) [text]

Tenth meeting of the Asia Dialogue on Forced Migration, 6 May 2021 [access]

- Follow link for key documents and co-conveners' statement. See also related blog post.

UNHCR's Comments on the Proposed Amendment of the Enforcement Decree of the Refugee Act of the Republic of Korea (UNHCR, Sept. 2020) [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific (5 June 2021)