18 April 2024

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Opportunities:

Call for applications: "Advancing refugee protection and promoting accountability in Southeast Asia through legal empowerment and refugee leadership (ARPR)," Bangkok [info]
- Volunteer researcher/paralegal/advocate with lived experience of forced displacement sought to join team working on a/m project. Applications considered on a rolling basis.

Seminar: Placemaking in a Polycrisis: The Protection and Survival of Refugees in Malaysia, Stanford, CA, 24 April 2024 [info]

CFP: The Asia Pacific Chapter of the IARMJ Conference, Melbourne, 27-29 November 2024 [info]
- The theme is "Vulnerabilities in Refugee and Migration Law: People, processes, and systems." Submit abstracts by 1 May 2024.

Short pieces:

The consequences of the government’s new migration legislation could be dire – for individuals and for Australia (The Conversation, March 2024) [text]
- See also related Kaldor Centre statement and submissions to a parliamentary inquiry into the bill. 

Displacement is on The Rise. Is the Asia-Pacific Ready? (CGD Blog, March 2024) [text]

Gangs, kidnappings, murders: why thousands of Rohingya are desperately trying to escape refugee camps by boats (The Conversation, March 2024) [text]

The High Court is hearing another high-stakes immigration case. Can people be forced to assist in their own deportation? (The Conversation, April 2024) [text]
- Focuses on Australia.

Japan Court Finds Rohingya Ethnicity Grounds for Refugee Status (Human Rights Watch, Feb. 2024) [text]

Myanmar: The junta’s forced conscription of Rohingyas (The Interpreter Blog, April 2024) [text]

"Pakistan threatens new wave of Afghan deportations," The New Humanitarian, 10 April 2024 [text]
- See also related article in The Diplomat.

UNHCR and Parliament members conduct thematic meeting on refugee issues in Kazakhstan (UNHCR, April 2024) [text]
- Note: This news story links to "an analysis of national legislation and practices concerning refugees" published in 2021 in English and Kazakh.

"Why the Rohingya are Being Treated the Way They are," The Diplomat, 26 March 2024 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Displaced and Destitute: The Precarious Lives of Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh," Bulletin of Asia-Pacific Studies, vol. 26, no. 1 (2024) [full-text]

Global Refugee Forum 2023: Outcomes for the Asia-Pacific Region (ICVA, April 2024) [access]
- Follow link for report, data and video recording of launch.

"Hindutva Politics and the Making of Extreme Precarity: BJP Policies against Rohingya Refugees in India," Innovation in the Social Sciences, vol. 2, no. 1 (March 2024) [open access]

"The Humane Yet Ambivalent Attitude Towards Persecuted People: A Potential Threat to Stability?," Chapter in Integrated Approaches to Peace and Sustainability (Springer, 2023) [preprint]
- Focuses on Rohingya in Bangladesh.

"Kashmiri Pandits Amid Conflict-induced Displacement: Facts, Issues, and the Future Ahead," Journal of International Displacement, vol. 14, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Plaintiff S99: Rewriting Refugee Law Through a Trauma-Informed Lens," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 2 April 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on Australia.

"In Search of Durable Solutions for Refugees in Indonesia: A State Security and Human Rights Protection Approach," The Age of Human Rights Journal, no. 22 (2024) [open access]

"Transitions without Justice: Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal," International Journal of Transitional Justice, Advance Articles, 21 March 2024 [open access]

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