09 April 2025

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Opportunity:

Call for applications: Non-Residential Fellowship (NRF), Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies [info]
- Apply by 18 April 2025.

Short pieces:

"Australia to redirect $100m in foreign aid to Indo-Pacific region after Trump pulls funding," The Guardian, 25 March 2025 [text]

Challenges Faced by the Myanmar Community in South Australia: Recommendations for Improved Access to Services (Refugee Research Online, March 2025) [text]

"Myanmar earthquake worsens one of the world’s largest and most neglected humanitarian crises," The New Humanitarian, 2 April 2025 [text]
- See also related Reuters article.

Pakistan: Opaque ‘Illegal Foreigners Repatriation Plan’ targeting Afghan refugees must be withdrawn (Amnesty International, March 2025) [text]
- See also related UNHCR message, OHCHR press release, and new Amnesty campaign publication below.

The Plight of North Korean Refugees in China (Wilson Center, April 2025) [text]

UN and partners seek $934.5m for life-saving aid to 1.5 million Rohingya refugees and their hosts in Bangladesh (UNHCR, March 2025) [text]

Us and them: Indonesia’s migration policy (Maastricht Univ., March 2025) [text]

WFP cuts Rohingya food assistance: What does losing $6.50/month mean? (HPN, March 2025) [text]
- See also update from AP News.

"Where my heart belongs": Disaster-induced displacement in Nabavatu village, Fiji (RID Blog, March 2025) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

2025-26 Federal Budget: What it means for refugees and people seeking humanitarian protection (Refugee Council of Australia, March 2025) [text]

"Can a Sense of Shared War Experience Increase Refugee Acceptance?," Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 69, no. 4 (April 2025) [preprint]
- Focuses on South Korea.

"Death toll among the Bangladeshi refugees of the 1971 war," PLoS ONE 20(4): e0320760 (April 2025) [open access]

"Is universal health coverage really better? Unintended consequences of the 2019 Amendment of the National Health Insurance Act for humanitarian sojourners in South Korea," International Journal for Equity in Health, 24:42 (Feb. 2025) [open access]

Issue Brief on Regular Migration Pathways No.1: Data Insights and Trends in Asia and the Pacific -Facilitating Pathways for Regular Migration (IOM, March 2025) [text]

'Treat us like human beings': Afghans in Pakistan at risk of unlawful deportation (Amnesty International, April 2025) [text]

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