Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Blog posts & press:

Addressing backlog in refugee cases is key to ensuring integrity in our migration system (Asylum Insight, Dec. 2022) [text]

Displaced, dispossessed and deprived of rights: the Rohingya of Myanmar (United Against Inhumanity, Nov. 2022) [text]

"For Rohingya refugees, rising dangers and a long road to repatriation," The New Humanitarian, 10 Nov. 2022 [text]

"In Afghanistan’s shadowy new conflict, new displacement and new civilian abuses," The New Humanitarian, 23 Nov. 2022 [text]

Refugees may become victims of Malaysia’s electoral politics (The Interpreter Blog, Nov. 2022) [text]

"Thailand’s Troubling History with the Uyghurs," The Diplomat, 2 Nov. 2022 [text]

UNHCR calls for support, solidarity amid rise in risky Andaman Sea crossings (UNHCR, Dec. 2022) [text]

"What Will Japan’s Great Reopening Mean for Immigration Policy?," The Diplomat, 11 Nov. 2022 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Challenges in analysing needs over time using Multi Sector Needs Assessment (MSNAS): Experiences from the Rohingya response (ACAPS, Nov. 2022) [text]

Concluding observations on the sixth periodic report of Australia, UN Doc. No. CAT/C/AUS/CO/6 (Committee against Torture, Nov. 2022) [access]

- Click on the + sign next to "Concluding Observations" under Australia, then select "view document" to download it. See also related RCOA media release.

Country Report: Bangladesh (Asile Project, 2022) [text]

"Hong Kong’s new wave of migration: socio-political factors of individuals’ intention to emigrate," Comparative Migration Studies, 10:49 (Dec. 2022) [open access]

"How Migrant Resource Centres affect migration decisions: Quasi-experimental evidence from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iraq and Pakistan," International Migration, Early View, 22 Nov. 2022 [open access]

“No One Asked Me Why I Left Afghanistan”: Pushbacks and Deportations of Afghans from Turkey (Human Rights Watch, Nov. 2022) [text]

*People’s Republic of China: Fact Sheet (UNHCR, Nov. 2022) [text]

"There was an old lady who swallowed a fly: progressively more troubling amendments to the Australian Migration Act," Australian Journal of Human Rights, Latest Articles, 3 Nov. 2022 [open access]

Unpacking the Realities of Displacement Affected Communities in Afghanistan Since August 2021 (IOM & Samuel Hall, Nov. 2022) [access]

- Follow link to access four "research briefs on the impact of climate change, mental health, infrastructure, and urban migration on displacement-affected communities in Afghanistan," as well as a synthesis report on "Displacement Trends and Challenges in Afghanistan since August 2021."

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific (8 Nov. 2022)