22 July 2024

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Short pieces:

AIT Hosts “Refugee Voices from Southeast Asia” Workshop in Commemoration of Refugee Day (Asian Inst. of Technology, June 2024) [text]

Kaldor Centre explainer: Why, 11 years on, Australia’s exclusion of refugees who arrive by boat is a failure (Kaldor Centre, July 2024) [text]

Pakistan: One-year extension of UN-registered Afghan refugees a welcome first step, lifeline must extend to all (Amnesty International, July 2024) [text]

UNHCR, NAPC sustain capacity development initiative to boost Philippine Government’s awareness, advocacy for IDP Protection (UNHCR, July 2024) [text]

Reports:

The Accountability, Politics and Humanitarian Toll of the Rohingya Genocide (New Lines Institute, June 2024) [text]

Forced Displacement: A Rapidly Rising Vulnerability and Its Challenges for an Inclusive and Sustainable Asia and the Pacific (Asian Development Bank, July 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]
- "Three main causes of forced displacement are outlined and discussed—violence, inequality, and environment and climate change."

Kyrgyzstan: Migration Data Gaps Analysis (IOM, Jan. 2024) [text]

Negotiating belonging in an age of precarity: Externalization in Southeast Asia (Externalizing Asylum, July 2024) [text]

The Nexus of Hindu Nationalism, Democratic Governance, and Refugee Rights: A Case Study of Rohingya Refugees in India (Conflict, Justice, Decolonization: Critical Studies of Inter-Asian Societies Project, July 2024) [text]

‘Offshore processing’ in Australia (Externalizing Asylum, July 2024) [access via UNSW]

Populations in Peril: Decoding Patterns of Forced Displacement in Myanmar (World Bank, May 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Disaster, risk and conducting human security research in Southeast Asia," Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal, EarlyCite, 18 July 2024 [open access]

Dve Domovini = Two Homelands, no. 59 (2024) [open access]
- Special issue on "Labor Migration in Ukraine and the Post-Soviet Space." Includes articles on Central Asia countries & Japan.

"Just Around the Corner: How Cross-ethnic Solidarity is Established Between Locals and the Asylum-Seekers and Refugees in a Local NGO," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 2 July 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on Hong Kong.

"Linguistic hostility, social exclusion, and the agency of African migrants in Hong Kong," Language in Society, FirstView, 3 May 2024 [open access]

"Refugees and mental wellbeing: A call for community approaches in Aotearoa New Zealand," Mental Health and Social Inclusion, EarlyCite, 16 July 2024 [open access]

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