Regional Focus: Asia Pacific (incl. Australia) - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

CFP: Asia-Pacific Journal of International Humanitarian Law [info]

- Topics of interest include "forced displacement and migration during armed conflicts." Submissions accepted on a rolling basis.

Call for concept notes: Programmes Benefiting Afghan Refugees in Pakistan [info]

- Submission deadline is 1 March 2022.

Blog posts & press:

"Afghanistan’s crises, by the numbers," The New Humanitarian, 15 Feb. 2022 [text]

Aid Agencies Can’t Fix Afghanistan’s Humanitarian Crisis (Just Security Blog, Feb. 2022) [text]

"Bhasan Char and Refugee ‘Warehousing’," The Diplomat, 8 Feb. 2022 [text]

New Book Chapter: “We Are Alive, but Have No Life”: Rohingya Refugees, Deprived of the Prospects for a Future (PRIO Blog, Feb. 2022) [text]

UNHCR Deputy calls for enhanced access to education and livelihoods for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh (UNHCR, Feb. 2022) [text]

New books:

There have been a number of new releases in the last several months that focus on the Asia region, and more are on the horizon. Unfortunately none are open access! Here is a listing of some recent titles that I have come across:

Forced Displacement and NGOs in Asia and the Pacific, Routledge, Jan. 2022

Internal Migration within South Asia: Contemporary Issues and Challenges, Springer, Jan. 2022

Migration Governance in Asia: A Multi-level Analysis, Routledge, Jan. 2022

The Protection of Refugees in Southeast Asia: A Legal Fiction?, Routledge, Feb. 2022

Resettlement in Asian Countries: Legislation, Administration and Struggles for Rights, Routledge, Dec 2021

The Rohingya Crisis: Human Rights Issues, Policy Concerns and Burden Sharing, SAGE, Dec. 2021

Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Myanmar: Ethnic Conflict and Resolution, Palgrave Macmillan, Jan. 2022

The Routledge Handbook of Refugees in India, Routledge, Forthcoming March 2022 

Reports:

Forced Migration Trends in the Asia Pacific, Migration and Mobility in the Asia Pacific Working Paper, no. 2 (Monash Univ. Malaysia, Dec. 2021) [text]

Protection Analysis: Refugee influxes from Myanmar (Protection Cluster, Feb. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Thailand.

We Also Have Dreams: Human Rights and Quality of Life Issues of the Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh (Burma Human Rights Network, Feb. 2022) [access]

- See also related Devex news story.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific (incl. Australia) (3 Feb. 2022)