10 February 2023

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Opportunities:

Job announcement: Assistant Librarian and Information Manager, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group [info]
- Apply by 15 February 2023.

Lecture: Boredom and Excitement at Sea: Jewish Refugees' Experiences on Ships Bound for Shanghai, 28 February 2023 [info]

Blog posts & press:

"The Asia-Pacific’s Next Refugee Crisis is Coming – Ready or Not," The Diplomat, 7 Feb. 2023 [text]

"Australia’s Nauru Conundrum," The Diplomat, 31 Jan. 2023 [text]

Bangladesh and the 1951 Refugee Convention (RLI Blog, Feb. 2023) [text]

"Does Anyone Want to Solve the Rohingya Crisis?," The Diplomat, 2 Feb. 2023 [text]

Increasing Arrivals of Rohingya Boats; IOM Scales Up Support (IOM, Jan. 2023) [text]

"A legal instrument underpinning Australia's offshore processing regime lapsed last year, and for months no-one noticed," ABC News [Australia], 7 Feb. 2023 [text]

"Myanmar’s neglected crisis demands a different response," The New Humanitarian, 1 Feb. 2023 [text]

The Partition of British India, Mass Displacement and Related Legislations in Independent India (RLI Blog, Jan. 2023 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

A Better Plan for Rohingya Refugees (Amnesty International, Feb. 2023) [text]
- See also related press release.

"Coloniality and case law on the Australian asylum offshoring scheme," International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, vol. 7, no. 2 (2023) [open access]
- "This article presents an analysis of case law from Nauru, Australia and Papua New Guinea concerning the Australian offshoring scheme for asylum seekers. Its specific focus is to enquire to what extent and how colonial conceptual and ideological patterns of thought play a role in the reasoning of the courts involved."

"Disadvantaged Economic Conditions and Stricter Border Rules Shape Afghan Refugees’ Ethnobotany: Insights from Kohat District, NW Pakistan," Plants, vol. 12, no. 3 (Jan. 2023) [open access]

"Finding peace journalism: An analysis of Pakistani media discourse on Afghan refugees and their forced repatriation from Pakistan," Media, War & Conflict, OnlineFirst, 28 Jan. 2023 [abstract]

"Making Sense of Human Advocacy Narrative: Raising Support for People Seeking Asylum Among Diverse Audiences," International Journal of Communication, vol. 17 (2023) [open access]
- Focuses on Australia.

Review: A Migration System for Australia’s Future (Govt. of Australia) [info]
- See related submissions from the Australian Red CrossRefugee Council of Australia, UNHCR, and a coalition of organizations advocating for complementary pathways.

Multimedia:

Addressing the Rohingya Boat Crisis, 6 Feb. 2023 [access]

Governance of Forced Migration in South Asia, 5 April 2022 [access]

Resource:

Hear from us, not about us: The power of refugee-background research (Community Research) [access]
- See also video recording of related launch event and Scoop article.

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