Opportunities:
Seminar: The Differential Criminalisation of Unauthorised Migration: Controlling the Maritime Movements of Rohingya to and from Indonesia, Singapore, 24 February 2026 [info]
CFP: ARC-UNHCR Conference on Refugee Studies and Forced Displacement (REFCON 2026), Kuala Lumpur, 9-11 June 2026 [info]
- Submit proposals by 28 February 2026.
Short pieces:
Australia: Abusive Refugee, Migration Policies Expand (HRW, Feb. 2026) [text]
Fixing the “Foreigner”: What India’s New Immigration Law Gets Wrong About
Refugees (RLI Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]
Rohingya boats: Out of mind but still coming (The Interpreter Blog, Feb.
2026) [text]
Selective Humanitarianism and the Erosion of Non-Refoulement: India’s
Immigration and Foreigners (Exemption) Order 2025 (RLI Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]
New open access book:
Between Empire and Nation: South Asian Humanitarianism in the Late
Colonial Period (Cambridge Univ. Press, Dec. 2025) [open access]
- This volume provides "a comprehensive history of South Asian
humanitarian aid in the context of armed conflicts in the colonial
period. Adopting an international and transnational approach, the book
focuses on relief initiatives from the First World War to the Second World
War and the early post-war years. Through five case studies, this book
offers new insights into the history of volunteer societies and non-state
organisations in British India. It enhances readers’ understanding of late
colonial public and political activism on the Indian subcontinent. "
Journal articles:
"Causing a Stir: Unwanted Aliens and the Cauldron of Crimmigration
Controls Post-NZYQ," Univ. of Queensland Law Journal,
Advance Access, 30 Oct. 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on Australia. See also related Border Criminologies
blog post.
"Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post-colonial Statebuilding in the
Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld," Development and Change, Early View,
23 Jan. 2026 [open access]
"The hope industrial complex: resisting manufactured and false hope with
critical hope in peace education, Thailand's refugee context,"
Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives, Latest
Articles, 27 Jan. 2026 [open access]
"Humanitarian Crises and Mental Health Coping Strategies Among Myanmar
Refugees in Mizoram State, India," Asian Social Work and Policy Review, vol. 20, no. 1 (Feb. 2026) [open access]
"Reflections on the mobility turn and the relationality of
(im)mobilities," Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies, Latest
Articles, 15 Jan. 2026 [open access]
- Uses "the case of Afghan refugees in Korea as an illustration."
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