12 February 2024

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Opportunity:

Call for applications: Ninth Annual Research and Orientation Workshop on Global Protection of Refugees and Migrants, Kolkata, 8-14 November 2024 [info]
- Apply by 8 March 2024.

Short pieces:

Advocating for protection of refugees in Hong Kong through the UN’s Universal Periodic Review (RLI Blog, Feb. 2024) [text]

Call for a Buddhism-Inspired Asian Regional Compact on Internal Displacement (E-International Relations, Jan. 2024) [text]

How international recognition of cultural practices could be a new way to protect refugees (The Conversation, Feb. 2024) [text]
- Focuses on Bhutanese in Nepal.

Myanmar: Rohingya at Risk in Rakhine Fighting (Human Rights Watch, Feb. 2024) [text]

Reports & book chapters:

Afghanistan cross-border mobility report: two years of mixed migration in review, 15 August 2021-15 August 2023 (IOM, Feb. 2024) [text]

"The 'ASEAN Way' in Migration Governance," Chapter in Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality (Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2023) [open access]

Displaced people in Afghanistan’s cities need support (IIED, Jan. 2024) [text]

Empowering Mental Health in the Asia Pacific: Innovative Strategies and Advocacy for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (ADSP, APRRN & IRC, Feb. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Hacking migration control: Repurposing and reprogramming deportability," Security Dialogue, vol. 54, no. 6 (Dec. 2023) [open access]
- Draws on "ethnographic research on the governance of migration between Myanmar and Malaysia."

"Living at the Fence – Navigating Complexities While Settling in New Country: Lived Experiences of South Sudanese Refugees in Australia," Journal of Intercultural Studies, Latest Articles, 30 Jan. 2024 [open access]

"Navigating the shift in Bangladeshi host community’s perceptions towards the Rohingya refugees: a declining sympathy," Frontiers in Sociology, 6 Feb. 2024 [open access]

"Racial Exclusion by Bureaucratic Omission: Non-Enumeration, Documentary Dispossession, and the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar," Social Problems, Advance Articles, 19 Jan. 2024 [preprint]

"The Refugee Crisis and Japan's Double Standards of Protection," Journal of East-West Thought, vol. 13, no. 4 (Dec. 2023) [full-text]

"South Asia’s Tibetan Refugee Community is Shrinking, Imperiling Its Long-Term Future," Migration Information Source, 8 Feb. 2024 [text]

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