Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Short pieces:

Academics as Refugee Policy Advocates in Australia (Asylum Insight, June 2024) [text]

Between hardship and hope: The journey of the displaced Rohingya population and their hosts in Bangladesh (End Poverty in South Asia Blog, June 2024) [text]

Grassroots sport can help refugees find their feet in Australia – Brisbane’s Olympic planners need to lead the way too (The Conversation, June 2024) [text]

‘Offshore processing’ in Australia (Externalizing Asylum, June 2024) [text]

The Role of Religious Actors in Refugee Response: A Key, yet Overlooked, Piece of the Puzzle (RLI Blog, June 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

*UNHCR hails local and regional support for IDP bills (UNHCR, June 2024) [text]

UNHCR lauds Philippine Government launch of 1st National Refugee Day commemoration (UNHCR, June 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Boundary-Making and Political Activism in Protracted Exile: Second-Generation Tibetan Refugees in India," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 20 April 2023 [open access]

Convention Refugees in New Zealand: Being Trapped in Immigration Limbo Without the Right to Obtain a Visa (International Justice Advocates Limited, Feb. 2024) [text]

Disasters, vol. 48, no. S1 (July 2024) [contents]

- Special issue on "Local knowledge as the basis of disaster management and humanitarian assistance," with a focus on China, Japan, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Six articles are open access.

"Interpersonal Therapy for Refugees in Malaysia," Chapter in Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Global Reach (Oxford Univ. Press, May 2024) [open access]

- Scroll to p. 207.

Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, no. 38 (2024) [full-text]

- Special issue on "Health, Border, and Marginality: Toward Transdisciplinarity?"

"Local community responses to Kurdish asylum seekers in Japan," Routed Magazine (May 2024) [full-text]

"The Potential Refugee Status of the Rohingya in Bangladesh under International Refugee Law," Kent Law Review, vol. 8, no. 1 (2024) [abstract] [open access text]

"Protecting National Sovereignty: The ‘Australian Model’ and the Exclusion of Asylum Seekers," Sociology, OnlineFirst, 16 June 2024 [open access]

"The spectres of coloniality that haunt the Rohingya struggle for belonging," Routed Magazine (May 2024) [full-text]

"Still a Negative Case? Japan’s Changing Refugee Policy in the Face of New Geopolitical Challenges," Asia-Pacific Journal, vol. 22, no. 6 (June 2024) [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific (11 June 2024)