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03 March 2023

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Blog posts & press:

Amid a worsening refugee crisis, public support is high in both Australia and NZ to accept more Rohingya (The Conversation, March 2023) [text]

Changes to temporary protection visas are a welcome development – and they won’t encourage people smugglers (The Conversation, Feb. 2023) [text]
- Focuses on Australia. See also related UNHCR press release and another related post on The Conversation.

Disaster Management in Southeast Asia: 20 Years of Progress and Challenges (RSiS Commentary, March 2023) [text]

The Refugee Always Remembers: My Father’s Journey as a ‘Displaced Person’ (FluchtforschungsBlog, Feb. 2023) [text]
- "Tucked away in my father’s files were some old papers, documents which provided clues about his journey from East Pakistan to India in the early decades of India’s independence. These clues tell a story of displacement, nation-building, and of the shifting meanings of home, identity, and memory."

The Rohingyas in No Man’s Land Have Fled to Bangladesh (Refugee Research Online, Feb. 2023) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Analysis of the livelihood and health of internally displaced persons due to riverbank erosion in Bangladesh," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 7 (2023) [open access]

Analytical Report: On the Legislation and Practice of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the Context of Prospects for the Accession to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol (UNHCR, 2022) [text]
- In Uzbek, Russian and English; scroll to p. 141 for the latter.

Economic Sanctions During Humanitarian Emergencies: The Case of North Korea, Asia Pacific Issues, no. 157 (East-West Center, Jan. 2023) [text]

Guidance Note on the International Protection Needs of People Fleeing Afghanistan, Update I (UNHCR, Feb. 2023) [text]

"The migrant Hazara Shias of Pakistan and their social determinants for PTSD, mental disorders and life satisfaction," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 7 (2023) [open access]

"The Predicament of the Rohingya Refugee, Between Violence and Expulsion," Chapter in Migration and Torture in Today’s World (Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, Jan. 2023) [open access]

"Rights and Reality: India's response to the Rohingya Crisis," Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 11, no. 1 (Feb. 2023) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 1.

"The United Nations (UN) Card, Identity, and Negotiations of Health among Rohingya Refugees," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 20, no. 4 (Feb. 2023) [open access]

"Whose Responsibility? The Protection of Refugees in East Asia," Global Responsibility to Protect, vol. 15, no. 1 (2023) [free full-text]
- Focuses on North Koreans and the Rohingya.

Resource:

South Asia Network for Communication, Displacement and Migration [access]
- "This network is hosted by Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group and supported by Deutsche Welle Akademie to facilitate greater representation of refugees and displaced persons in media."

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