02 November 2023

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Short pieces:

China Forcibly Returns More than 500 to North Korea (Human Rights Watch, Oct. 2023) [text]

"Pakistan starts mass deportation of undocumented Afghans," The Guardian, 1 Nov. 2023 [text]
- See also related analysis in The Diplomat, commentary in The New Humanitarian, and Human Rights Watch news report.

The Rohingya Crisis: Challenges to Achieving a Sustainable Solution (South Asia @LSE Blog, Sept. 2023) [text]

Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh: Limiting the Damage of a Protracted Crisis (International Crisis Group, Oct. 2023) [text]

UNHCR and Thailand enhance cooperation in support of displaced and stateless populations (UNHCR, Oct. 2023) [text]

New open access book: 

The UNHCR and the Afghan Crisis: The Making of the International Refugee Regime
(Berghahn Books, Nov. 2023) [open access]
- "Today the UNHCR is present in more than 130 countries and takes care of some 90 million people. This book looks at how it is deployed and who its agents are. By taking the reader through the offices in charge of the Afghan refugee crisis during the 2000s, in Geneva and in Kabul, the book shows the internal functioning of this international organization. It provides analysis of Afghan refugee policies from an original position, with the author being both agency official and anthropologist, and articulates multiple levels of analysis: the micropolitics of practices as much as the institution and the multi-scalar power relations that shape its environment."

Reports & journal articles:

"Criminalizing mobilities: Exit restrictions in post-Soviet Central Asia," International Migration, Early View, 30 Oct. 2023 [open access]

Deported to What? Afghans in Pakistan (Asia Displacement Solutions Platform, Oct. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Impact of the geopolitical status quo vis-à-vis the Rohingya crisis on the social, economic, and political aspects of Bangladesh," Asian Politics & Policy, vol. 15, no. 4 (Oct. 2023) [open access]

"Migration Governance in Pakistan: Institutional Challenges and Data Gaps," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 16 Oct. 2023 [open access]

"Misery, Melancholy, and Misfortune: A Migrant Case Study," Wisconsin International Law Journal, vol. 41 (Forthcoming, 2024) [preprint]
- Focuses on migrants and refugees in India.

Regional Solutions for Rohingya Refugees (Asia Displacement Solutions Platform, Oct. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

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