09 January 2023

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Job announcements:

Co-Secretaries General, Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network [info]
- Note: "At least one of the two co-SG positions requires lived experience of forced displacement." Deadline for submitting applications is 22 January 2023.

Project Coordinator for the Advancing Refugee Protection and Rights in SEA through Legal Empowerment (ARPR), Asylum Access Thailand [info]
- Apply by 31 January 2023.

Blog posts & press:

"Displaced from Myanmar: Can’t Go Back and Can’t Go Forward," The Diplomat, 28 Dec. 2022 [text]

Further growth in onshore asylum applications from the Pacific (Dev Policy Blog, Dec. 2022) [text]
- Focuses on Australia.

Maritime Refugees as an Evolving Threat to Southeast Asia's Maritime Security (Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, Dec. 2022) [text]

"New get-tough policy on refugee appeals against deportation orders comes into force in Hong Kong," South China Morning Post, 6 Dec. 2022) [text]

"Rohingya Refugees are Departing for Southeast Asia in Increasing Numbers," The Diplomat, 1 Jan. 2023 [text]

Thai law ends forced returns of refugees, but scepticism persists over implementation (International Bar Association, Dec. 2022) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Alternatives Humanitaires = Humanitarian Alternatives
, no. 21 (Nov. 2022) [Eng. full-text] [Fr. full-text]
- Issue focus is "India: a humanitarian countermodel?"

Collecting data in the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar: What works based on five years of collective experience (ACAPS, Dec. 2022) [text]

"From Sex Offenders to National Heroes: Comparing Yemeni and Afghan Refugees in South Korea," Social Inclusion, vol. 10, no. 4 (2022) [open access]

"The Insecurity of Afghan Refugees in Indonesia: An Overview from the Perspective of Human Security," Malaysian Journal of International Relations, vol. 10 (2022) [open access]

"A phenomenological study on the North Korean refugees' trauma experience and recovery process during the escape and resettlement in South Korea," International Journal of Intercultural Relations, vol. 92 (Jan. 2023) [free full-text]

"The protection of civil rights for the Shi’ite refugees of Sampang, East Java: a systemic governance approach to restore the refugees’ rights," Indonesian Journal of Islam and Muslim Societies, vol. 12, no. 2 (2022) [open access]

"Shelters of Justice in Displaced Persons Settlements: A Proposal for Rohingya Camps," University of New Brunswick Law Journal, vol. 73 (2022) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 42.

"Trauma, Despair and Faith: Generational Resonances in Exiled Tibetans," Religions, vol. 13, no. 12 (Nov. 2022) [open access]
- Focuses on Tibetans in India.

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