08 July 2021

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Opportunities:

Job announcement: PhD Research Fellow, BEYOND Project, Univ. of Oslo [info]
- "The candidate will play a lead role in the in-depth study of Bangladesh, and will undertake both desk-based and field-based research, in particular legal doctrinal research, empirical legal research (qualitative) in Bangladesh and at UN institutions in Geneva, and archival research (as appropriate)." Apply by 1 September 2021.

Call for registration: Forced displacement and urban management virtual conference, 7-9 September 2021 [info]
- Organized by the Resilience Development Initiative Urban Refugee Research Group (RDI UREF) and the Indonesian Civil Society Association for Refugee Rights Protection (SUAKA).

Blog posts & press:

"Growing Violence in Afghanistan Takes a Toll on Afghan Refugees in Pakistan," The Diplomat, 3 July 2021 [text]

Journal’s special issue assesses progress made and yet to be made since Andaman Sea crisis (Kaldor Centre, July 2021) [text]
- Follow link to access various resources. 

Nassim Majidi on telling the stories of Afghans on the migration trail to Europe (openDemocracy, June 2021) [text]

Right to Life Encompasses Non-refoulement: Indian High Court Advances Refugee Policy (Jurist, June 2021) [text]

Rohingya Refugees Facing Medical Crisis on Bhasan Char (Human Rights Watch, June 2021) [text]

The Second COVID-19 Wave in Nepal and Nepali Migrants (MPC Blog, July 2021) [text]

"Study: 'Experiences and Perspectives of Deported Afghans in the Context of Current Political and Economic Developments in Afghanistan'," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 11 June 2021 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Dead papers: migrant ‘illegality’, city brokers, and the dilemma of exit for unauthorised African migrants in Delhi," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 29 June 2021 [open access]
- This "article considers ‘new’ entanglements between migrants and city actors as integral to a conceptualisation of exit practices for unauthorised migrants, beyond binary oppositions of forced/voluntary movement."

"High-density Population and Displacement in Bangladesh," Science, vol. 372, no. 6548 (June 2021) [ICCCAD]

"Migration Management and Safe Migration along the Indonesia-Malaysia Corridor," Chapter in Dignity in Movement: Borders, Bodies and Rights (E-International Relations, 2021) [open access]

"A Naturalistic Evaluation of Group Integrative Adapt Therapy (IAT-G) with Rohingya Refugees During the Emergency Phase of a Mass Humanitarian Crisis in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh," EClinicalMedicine, OnlineFirst, 11 June 2021 [open access]

*"The non-ratification of the 1951 Convention on Refugees: An Indian Paradoxical Approach to Human Rights," Revue québécoise de droit international (Juin 2021) [full-text]

A perilous journey: protection risks facing Rohingya en route to Malaysia (Mixed Migration Centre, July 2021) [text]

Strengthening engagement between faith leaders and humanitarian actors: a case study from Bangladesh (UNHCR, March 2021) [text]

"A Whole-of-Society Approach to the Rohingya Refugee Crisis: Strengthening Local Protection Capacity in South and South-East Asia," Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law, vol. 22, no. 1 (June 2021) [abstract]

Multimedia:

The experience of refugees and migrants in host countries in Southeast Asia: Findings from research in Malaysia and Indonesia, 27 May 2021 [access]

Trust: a precondition for protection and durable solutions, 19 May 2021 [access]

*UPDATED

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