16 July 2025

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Short pieces:

"Could (and should) private investors make up for US aid cuts in Afghanistan?," The New Humanitarian, 2 July 2025 [text]

"Desperate Afghan refugees return to an unfamiliar home," UN News, 11 July 2025 [text]
- See also related UNHCR briefing note.

Rohingya Facing Risks Everywhere, at All Times (Human Rights Watch, June 2025) [text]

Thailand’s refugee system puts publicity over protection (East Asia Forum, July 2025) [text]

UNHCR: Bangladesh has welcomed 150,000 Rohingya refugees in last 18 months (UNHCR, July 2025) [text]

Reports & book chapters: 

Between Diplomacy and Displacement: The Contradictions of the Rohingya Repatriation Discourse (Observer Research Foundation, July 2025) [text]

"I’ll Never Feel Secure": Undocumented and Exploited: Myanmar Nationals in Thailand (Human Rights Watch, July 2025) [access]

"Lives in translation: Listening to the voices of asylum seekers," Chapter in Field Research on Translation and Interpreting (Benjamins Publishing Co., May 2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Hong Kong.

Journal articles:

"Assessment of water, sanitation and hygiene services within nineteen Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh in 2022," BMC Health Services Research, 25:814 (June 2025) [open access]

"Bonded citizenship: Caste, Partition, and the prevention of exit," Modern Asian Studies, FirstView, 23 June 2025 [open access]

"Diaspora by another name: the making of refugees in Cold War China," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:49 (July 2025) [open access]

"Encampment policy and public perception: a cross-country analysis of host community responses to Rohingya refugees," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:48 (July 2025) [open access]

"Living Through Food Rations: A Culture-Centered Study With Rohingya Refugees," International Journal of Communication, vol. 19 (2025) [open access]

*"The practice of gender and protection mainstreaming in health response in humanitarian crisis: A case study from the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh," PLoS One 20(7): e0310878 (July 2025) [open access]

*UPDATED

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