25 July 2022

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Blog posts & press:

3 types of denial that allow Australians to feel OK about how we treat refugees (The Conversation, July 2022) [text]

Amending the Malaysian Immigration Law: The Rohingya Refugees in Malaysia (Modern Diplomacy, July 2022) [text]

Does Australia’s harsh asylum seeker policy matter to the average Australian? It depends whether they have to get off the couch (The Conversation, July 2022) [text]

Next Steps on the Road to Accountability and Security for Rohingya Refugees (Just Security Blog, July 2022) [text]

On 9th anniversary of ‘Offshore Processing’ UNHCR renews call for policy to end (UNHCR, July 2022) [text]

Refugee advisory panel members announced (Univ. of Auckland, July 2022) [text]

Refugees in Their Own Land: The Forgotten People of the Indo-Bangladesh Enclaves (Refugee Watch Online, July 2022) [text]

"Thailand’s Myanmar Policy is Costing Communities on Both Sides of the Border," The Diplomat, 18 July 2022 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Adolescent lives in Cox's Bazar: what are we learning from longitudinal evidence? (GAGE Consortium, March 2022) [text]

Asia & The Pacific Regional Trends: Forced Displacement 2021 (UNHCR, July 2022) [text]
- See also related presentations and video recording of a recent event.

"Asia's (Lack of) Response and Recovery Plans for the Forcibly Displaced," Journal of Southeast Asian Human Rights, vol. 5, no. 2 (2021) [open access]

"Enigma of ‘Brus’ in Mizoram: Displacement, Repatriation and Livelihood," Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, no. 59 (June 2022) [full-text]
- Focuses on conflict between the Mizo ethnic majority and the Brus minority in Mizoram, India. Scroll to p. 20. 

"Impact of Rohingya refugees on food prices in Bangladesh: Evidence from a natural experiment," World Development, vol. 154 (June 2022) [open access]

"Impediments to localization agenda: humanitarian space in the Rohingya response in Bangladesh," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 7:14 (July 2022) [open access]

Pakistan: Flow Monitoring of Undocumented Afghan Migrants, Summary Report 2021 (IOM, July 2022) [text]

"Refugee-Turned-Voters: Refugee Identity and Voting Rights among Exiled Tibetan Community in Mcleodganj," Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, no. 59 (June 2022) [full-text]
- Focuses on India. Scroll to p. 34.

Multimedia:

New podcast explores Australia's offshore processing policy for asylum seekers (July 2022) [access]

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