03 August 2021

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Blog posts & press:

"70 Years on, the Refugee Convention Still Struggles to Gain Traction in the Asia-Pacific: The Asia-Pacific region counts the smallest percentage of state parties to the 1951 Refugee Convention and the 1967 Protocol – only 20 out of 48," The Diplomat, 2 July 2021 [text]

"Indefinite Hosting of Rohingya Refugees a Growing Concern for Bangladesh," The Diplomat, 9 July 2021 [text]

The Paradox of Malaysia’s ‘Humanitarian Grounds’ (Border Criminologies Blog, July 2021) [text]

Protecting the ‘Illegal Migrant’: Some Critical Perspectives from India (Border Criminologies Blog, July 2021) [text]

UNHCR warns of imminent humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan (UNHCR, July 2021) [text]

Zos As Jews: A Narrative of "Discent" and Chin Refugees on the Indo-Myanmar Borderlands (Border Criminologies Blog, July 2021) [text]

Reports:

Asia & the Pacific Regional Population Trends Analysis: Forced Displacement 2020 (UNHCR, July 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Review of the Evidence Landscape on the Risk Communication and Community Engagement Interventions Among the Rohingya Refugees to Enhance Healthcare Seeking Behaviours in Cox's Bazar (Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform, July 2021) [text]

Towards an Inclusive Citizenship in a Federal Democratic Myanmar (Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, July 2021) [access]
- Follow link for text in English and Burmese.

Journal articles:

"Advancing refugee rights in non-signatory States: the role of civil society in Thailand," Forced Migration Review, no. 67 (July 2021) [open access]

"Bangladesh’s judicial encounter with the 1951 Refugee Convention," Forced Migration Review, no. 67 (July 2021) [open access]

"Beyond Asian exceptionalism: refugee protection in non-signatory States," Forced Migration Review, no. 67 (July 2021) [open access]

"The challenges we face in a non-signatory country," Forced Migration Review, no. 67 (July 2021) [open access]
- Focuses on Indonesia.

"Forced Migration, Oceanic Humanitarianism, and the Paradox of Danger and Saviour of a Vietnamese Refugee Boat Journey," The Historical Journal, FirstView, 21 July 2021 [free full-text]

"From solidarity to resistance: host communities’ evolving response to the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 6:16 (July 2021) [open access]

"Hong Kong’s Unified Screening Mechanism: form over substance," Forced Migration Review, no. 67 (July 2021) [open access]

Journal of Human Security Studies, vol. 10, no. 2 (2021) [full-text]
- Special issue on "Refugees/Migrants and Work and Education." Most articles focus on Japan. 

"The Legacy of Conflict: Reconstruction and Migration in the Aftermath of Civil War in Tajikistan," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 3 Aug. 2021 [preprint]

"Migration infrastructures and the production of migrants’ irregularity in Japan and the United Kingdom," Comparative Migration Studies, 9:31 (Aug. 2021) [open access]

"A Proposal for Malaysia’s Asylum Act," Asian Journal of Law and Policy, vol. 1, no. 1 (July 2021) [open access]

"Refouling Rohingyas: The Supreme Court of India's Uneasy Engagement with International Law," Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, vol. 7, no. 2 (2021) [open access]

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