21 April 2025

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

The Growing Concern of Land Appropriation and Displacement for Ilmenite Mining in Sri Lanka’s North-East Regions (Refugee Watch Online, April 2025) [text]

The Historical Roots and Legal Implications of Rohingya Migration towards India (RLI Blog, April 2025) [text]

*"In Myanmar, a disaster in a war zone means a slow and difficult aid response," The New Humanitarian, 22 April 2025 [text]

"Myanmar confirms 180,000 Rohingya eligible to return, Bangladesh says," Al Jazeera, 4 April 2025 [text]

"Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees in limbo after deportation from US," The Guardian, 21 April 2025 [text]
- See also related article in The Diplomat.

Reports:

Executive summary: recent trends in Rohingya cross-border displacement and outlook for 2025 (ACAPS, April 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Legal Empowerment of Refugees in Southeast Asia: The ARPR Project (Asylum Access, April 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"Disentangling Anti-Refugee Sentiment: An Empirical Investigation of the Rohingya Crisis," Economics Letters, In Press, 18 April 2025 [preprint]
- Focuses on Bangladesh.

"Indian Women, Refugees, and Decolonization across India, British Malaya, and China, 1940–1953," The Historical Journal, FirstView, 15 April 2025 [open access]

"Partition, Bengali Refugee Critiques of Postcolonial State and Capitalism, and the Subaltern Origins of the Cold War in India, 1947–1950," The Historical Journal, FirstView, 15 April 2025 [open access]

"A qualitative study on behavioral and social drivers of COVID-19 vaccine amongst refugees and migrants in Pakistan," PLOS Global Public Health, 5(4): e0004444 (April 2025) [open access]

"The spectre of statelessness," International Theory, FirstView, 14 April 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on Hong Kong.

"Unsafe at Home and Vulnerable Abroad: The Struggle of Forgotten Myanmar Asylum Seekers and Migrants in Thailand Post-Coup d’Etat," Social Sciences, vol. 14, no. 4 (April 2025) [open access]

*UPDATED

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