27 August 2021

Regional Focus: Asia

Opportunities:

*Job announcement: Project Officer, Hong Kong, PILnet [info]
- Apply by 6 September 2021.

Call for proposals: Establishing research chairs on forced displacement in South and Southeast Asia, and Central and South America [info]
- The submission deadline is 30 September 2021.

Journal articles:

"Access to Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Services among Urban Refugees and Asylum Seekers, Relative to the Thai Population, 2019: A Case Study in Bangkok, Thailand," Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, vol. 14 (Aug. 2021) [open access]

"Influence of Housing Resettlement on the Subjective Well-Being of Disaster-Forced Migrants: An Empirical Study in Yancheng City," Sustainability, vol. 13, no. 15 (July 2021) [open access]

"Relocation and dislocation: civilian, refugee, and military movement as factors in the disintegration of postwar China, 1945-49," Itinerario (Forthcoming, 2021) [postprint]

"Renegotiating Identity and Agency in Everyday Oppression: Experiences of Forced Migrant Youth in Malaysia," Social Sciences, vol. 10, no. 8 (Aug. 2021) [open access]

Focus on Afghans:

Afghanistan: Humanitarian impact and trends analysis (ACAPS, Aug. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Afghanistan: Joint Operating Principles - Ensuring the Delivery of Principled Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA, revised Aug. 2021) [text]

Afghanistan: what responsibility do other nations have towards people fleeing the Taliban? (The Conversation, Aug. 2021) [text]

*Confronting the Crisis in Afghanistan: Eight Priorities for the International Community (World Refugee & Migration Council, Aug. 2021) [text]

Europe: Lead Efforts to Protect At-Risk Afghans (Human Rights Watch, Aug. 2021) [text]

The Humanitarian and Policy Challenges of U.S. Sanctions on the Taliban: Avoidable consequences for Afghan civilians (Just Security Blog, Aug. 2021) [text]

Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan: How Could Europe Respond to Growing Displacement?, 24 Aug. 2021 [access]
- Follow link for audio & video recordings.

"I hope the focus on Afghanistan will continue. UNHCR is here for the long run" (UNHCR, Aug. 2021) [text]

*"'Unprecedented' numbers crossing from Afghanistan to Pakistan," The Guardian, 27 Aug. 2021 [text]

*Where do Afghanistan’s refugees go? (The Conversation, Aug. 2021) [text]

Focus on Rohingya:

Bangladesh: Fleeing Rohingya Die at Sea (Human Rights Watch, Aug. 2021) [text]

Briefing Note: Humanitarian priorities in post-coup Myanmar (Asia Displacement Solution Platform, June 2021) [text]

"Choosing sides: Five local takes on aid neutrality in Myanmar," The New Humanitarian, 25 Aug. 2021 [text]

"Effectiveness of waste plastic bottles as construction material in Rohingya displacement camps," Cleaner Engineering and Technology, vol. 3 (2021) [open access]

Four years on, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are losing hope (ODI Insights, Aug. 2021) [text]

Left Adrift at Sea: Dangerous Journeys of Refugees Across the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea - January 2020--June 2021 (UNHCR, Aug. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

"The Rohingya: A humanitarian emergency decades in the making," The New Humanitarian, 25 Aug. 2021 [text]

*UPDATED

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