03 April 2026

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Short pieces:

Closing the Afghan embassy in Canberra would put many vulnerable Afghans at significant risk (The Conversation, March 2026) [text]

Harnessing Islamic philanthropy to save lives in the Andaman Sea (The Interpreter Blog, March 2026) [text]

Help for athletes, bans for others: unpacking Australia’s complex, chaotic migration developments (The Conversation, March 2026) [text]
- See also related posts on The Conversation and Human Rights Watch.

No Shelter: India’s Selective Abandonment of its Refugees (USCRI, March 2026) [text]

The sea does not discriminate, but what happens on land does (RLI Blog, March 2026) [text]
- Focuses on Rohingya refugees.

Reports & journal articles:

"Arar rosom arar elom: an exploration of arts-based method in fostering cultural identity and mental healing for Rohingya refugees," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 23 March 2026 [open access]

"Refuge by ‘technical’ means: humanitarianism, bureaucratic asylum, and the politics of refracted mandates in postcolonial India (1947–1981)," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 26 March 2026 [open access]

Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, nos. 66 & 67 (June/Dec. 2025) [full-text]
- Special issue on "Migration, Gender, and the Ecology of Marginality in Asia."

Tackling the Tazkira (National ID) Documentation Gap Among Afghan Returnees (Norwegian Refugee Council, March 2026) [text]

"Toxic Entanglements: Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru," PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, vol. 49, no. 1 (May 2026) [open access]

Multimedia:

Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy: Caste, Class, and Indenture Abroad, 1914-67, 18 Feb. 2026 [access]

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