27 August 2024

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Opportunity:

Call for registration: IARMJ Asia Pacific Chapter Biennial Conference, Melbourne, 25-26 November 2024 [info]
- The theme is "Vulnerabilities in Refugee and Migration Law: People, processes, and systems." Early bird registration is open until 30 August 2024.

Short pieces:

Dutton, Gaza and why we need an emergency protection framework (Pearls & Irritations, Aug. 2024) [text]
- Focuses on Australia.

Explainer: The Ripple Effect of Pakistan's Missing Refugee Law (JURIST Legal News, Aug. 2024) [text]

Hope on the horizon? What Bangladesh’s regime change could mean for Rohingya refugees (The Conversation, Aug. 2024) [text]

Seven years of crisis for Rohingya refugees (UNHCR, Aug. 2024) [text]

Three years since the fall of Kabul: Tracking displacement within and out of Afghanistan (Kaldor Centre, Aug. 2024) [text]

A training on the topic “Overview of the national legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of asylum” held at the site of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan (UNHCR, Aug. 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:
 
"Credibility and the Social Function of Property: A Saga of Mega-Dams, Eviction, and Privatization, as Told by Displaced Communities in Malaysia," Land, vol. 13, no. 8 (July 2024) [open access]

Forced Displacement Literature Review: July 2024 (Joint Data Center, Aug. 2024) [text]
- Features a list of references relating to Bangladesh and Afghanistan. See also related JDC Newsletter (July 2024).

Land Allocation Schemes for the Displaced in Afghanistan (ADSP & Samuel Hall, June 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Porosity on the Thailand-Myanmar border: before and after Myanmar’s 2021 coup," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 23 Aug. 2024 [open access]

Refugee Recognition Regime Country Profile: Malaysia, Working Paper, no. 6 (RefMig Project, 2023) [text]

"Repatriating Afghan Refugees from Pakistan: Background, Implications, and Consequences for Bilateral Relations and Regional Dynamics," QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 63, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

*"Rohingya refugees: humanitarian responses and implications,"  Research topic in Frontiers in Human Dynamics (Aug. 2022-Aug. 2024) [access]
- Four articles are available, along with an editorial that provides an overview of the contributions.

Multimedia:

Refugee Placemaking in Malaysia: A Conversation with Dr. Gerhard Hoffstaedter, 11 June 2024 [access]

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