10 October 2023

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Opportunities:

High-level meeting: 2023 Meeting on Rohingya Refugees: 'The Road to the Global Refugee Forum', Thailand, 17 October 2023 [info]
- Follow link for meeting-related documents.

Seminar: Decoding Justice: Data-driven insights into how refugee cases are decided in Australia, Online, 19 October 2023 [info]

Panel discussion: Data Driven Approaches to Refugee Litigation, Sydney/Online, 25 October 2023 [info]

Short pieces:

Pakistan intends to deport 1.7 million Afghans (The Interpreter Blog, Oct. 2023) [text]
- See also related Amnesty International article.

"UK territory accused of ‘unfair’ asylum screening after Tamil deportation U-turn," The New Humanitarian, 4 Oct. 2023 [text]

Why humanitarian aid is vital to Afghanistan (The Interpreter Blog, Sept. 2023) [text]

Why the government’s plan to overhaul the asylum system is a smart use of resources – and might just work (The Conversation, Oct. 2023) [text]
- Focuses on Australia.

Reports & journal articles:

"Fragmented Afghan journeys towards Europe: Caught between insecure lives, precarious livelihoods and restrictive policies," Chapter in Moving Towards Europe: Diverse Trajectories and Multidimensional Drivers of Migration across the Mediterranean and the Atlantic (Peter Lang, 2023) [open access]
- Scroll to p. 41.

"Has immobility been left behind in migration regulatory infrastructures?," International Migration, Early View, 25 Sept. 2023 [open access]
- Focuses on Kyrgyzstan.

Implementing the Refugee Participation Pledge (Refugee Council of Australia, Oct. 2023) [text]

Research Snapshot: What are the impacts of providing cooking fuel in refugee camps? (ELRHA, Sept. 2023) [text]
- Focuses on Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

"Social cohesion and reconciliation between the Rohingya and host communities in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh," Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal, EarlyCite, 3 Oct. 2023 [open access]

"The World Simply Gave Up": International Law and the Role of Non-State Entities in Humanitarian Evacuations in Afghanistan (Fordham Law School & Konrad-Adenaeur-Stiftung, Sept. 2023) [access]

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