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18 November 2024

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Opportunity:

Call for registration: Forced Displacement in an Urbanizing World, 20th International Association for the Study of Forced Migration Conference (IASFM20), Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 21-23 January 2025 [info]
- Note: This conference will also include presentations that focus on regional approaches and urban displacement in the Asia Pacific.

Short pieces:

Another rushed migration bill would give the government sweeping powers to deport potentially thousands of people (The Conversation, Nov. 2024) [text]
- Focuses on Australia.

Dozens of refugees are still stranded in precarious situations in PNG – and support from Australia is dwindling (The Conversation, Nov. 2024) [text]

Financial stress and cultural differences make migrants particularly vulnerable to gambling harms. Here’s why (The Conversation, Nov. 2024) [text]
- Focuses on Australia.

"Help the Rohingya help themselves," The New Humanitarian, 6 Nov. 2024 [text]

Reports:

Decreasing funds while repatriation is a distant destiny: can localisation be an answer to the protracted Rohingya crisis? (Humanitarian Practice Network, Nov. 2024) [text]

Japanese Emigration, Nikkei Communities, and Forced Migration: A Study from the Perspective of Human Security and International Cooperation, JICA Ogata Research Institute Discussion Paper, no. 28 (Japan International Cooperation Agency, Nov. 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Civil Society Silos: Racialized Neoliberal Logics and Subversive Expertise in the Movement against Australia's Operation Sovereign Borders," Migration and Society, vol. 7, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Decoding Online Narratives and Unraveling Complexities in the Rohingya Refugee Crisis," Social Media + Society, 18 Oct. 2024 [open access]

"India’s refugee policy dilemma and its impact on Myanmar refugees at the India–Myanmar frontier," Discover Public Health, 21:153 (Oct. 2024) [open access]

"Island Detention and Seeking Asylum in the Asia-Pacific: The Entanglement of Humanitarianism in State Practices of 'Grey Sovereignty'," Migration and Society, vol. 7, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"New Zealand: From Settler Colony to Country Reliant on Temporary Immigration," Migration Information Source, 16 Oct. 2024 [text]

"Of Truths and Snakes: The Percussive Effects of Asylum Seeking in Australia," Medicine Anthropology Theory, vol. 11, no. 3 (2024) [open access]
- Focuses on Tamil asylum seekers and refugees from Sri Lanka in Australia.

"Refugee Registration Schemes in Malaysia: Governing Refugees by Maintaining the Status Quo and Reinforcing Borders," Migration and Society, vol. 7, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

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