26 February 2024

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Opportunities:

Call for registration: Meaningful Refugee Participation Training, Online, 20 March 2024 OR 27 March 2024 [info]
- Organized by APRRN.
- **Note: Please note the corrected date for the first training indicated above!**

Short pieces:

By boat or by plane? If you’re seeking asylum in Australia, the outcome is similarly bleak (The Conversation, Feb. 2024) [text]
- See also related article in The Guardian.

Reports of Refoulement in Kyrgyzstan Amidst Fears of Shrinking Asylum Space (Immigration Detention Monitor, Feb. 2024) [text]

Strengthened Refugee Status Determination Process in Fiji (Fiji Govt., Feb. 2024) [text]

"UN calls for urgent relocation of 61 asylum seekers stranded on Indian Ocean island," The Guardian, 18 Feb. 2024 [text]

Using biometrics to support cash-based interventions for Afghan returnees (UNHCR, Feb. 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

​Afghanistan’s unfolding crisis: wellbeing and livelihoods of displaced people before and after the regime change (IIED, Feb. 2024) [text]

"COVID-19 preventive measures in Rohingya refugee camps: An assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice," PLoS ONE 19(1): e0282558 (Jan. 2024) [open access]

"Denial from the other side: Experiences of racism as narrated by South Sudanese refugees in Australia," Discourse Studies, OnlineFirst, 9 Feb. 2024 [open access]

"National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights and Protecting Displaced Populations through Human Rights Due Diligence: Recommendations for Taiwan," Innovation in the Social Sciences, Advance Articles, 5 Dec. 2023 [open access]

"Reflections on the multi-sectoral response to COVID-19 in Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps," Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 32, no. 2 (June 2023) [open access]

"Supporting People Seeking Asylum in the Australian Community: A Service Provider Perspective," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 15 Feb. 2024 [open access]

"Triple marginalisation: The Plight of Rohingya refugees in India," Routed Magazine, no. 23 (Nov. 2023) [text]

Related post:

No comments: