Gül İnanç Barkay - Forced Displacement and NGOs in Asia and the Pacific

This volume presents a comprehensive survey of the dynamics of forced displacement and organisational response across Asia and the Pacific.

The Asia Pacific region hosts some of the largest numbers of displaced people on the planet, with some of the fewest protections available and sparse frameworks for advancing rights, livelihoods, and policy. The region maintains the lowest number of signatory states to international refugee protection covenants, and the majority of national protection and support systems are ad hoc, precarious, and unpredictable. Civil society has very often filled in the gaps but, with the rise of nationalist rhetoric, civil society space has been shrinking. Drawing upon the expertise of academics, practitioners, historians, theorists, policy makers, political scientists, economists, and the voices of affected communities across the region, this book examines both key case studies and larger regional trends.

The book is a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners looking to understand the complexities of responses to refugees and forced migrants in the Asia Pacific region.

Gl nan holds a joint appointment as a faculty at School of Art, Design and Media, NTU Singapore and as founding co-director at the Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies at University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Themba Lewis is Asia Manager at the Mixed Migration Center, a Trustee at AMERA International, and holds graduate degrees in Refugee Studies from the University of Oxford and the American University in Cairo.

Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

15 Film Censorship in the Asia-Pacific Region

Malaysia, Hong Kong and Australia Compared

Saw Tiong Guan

16 Asian and Pacific Cities

Development Patterns

Edited by Ian Shirley and Carol Neill

17 Eurasias Regional Powers Compared China, India, Russia

Edited by Shinichiro Tabata

18 Arts and Cultural Leadership in Asia

Edited by Jo Caust

19 Asian Worlds in Latin America

Stefania Paladini

20 Social Work and Sustainability in Asia

Facing the Challenges of Global Environmental Changes

Edited by Alice M. L. Chong and Iris Chi

21 Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities

Edited by Vivienne Lo, Chris Berry and Guo Liping

22 Forced Displacement and NGOs in Asia and the Pacific

Edited by Gl nan and Themba Lewis

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Names: Barkay, Gl nan, 1970- editor. | Lewis, Themba, editor.

Title: Forced displacement and NGOs in Asia and the Pacific / edited by Gl nan and Themba Lewis.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. |

Series: Routledge advances in Asia-Pacific studies | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021038256 (print) | LCCN 2021038257 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367702519 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367702496 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003145233 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Forced migrationPacific Area. | RefugeesPacific Area. | Non-governmental organizationsPacific Area.

Classification: LCC HV640 .F565 2022 (print) | LCC HV640 (ebook) | DDC 362.8709182/3dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021038256

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ISBN: 9780367702519 (hbk)

ISBN: 9780367702496 (pbk)

ISBN: 9781003145233 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9781003145233

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Zahra Abtahi is a Ph.D. student in social welfare at Florida International University.

Meherun Ahmed is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Asian University for Women (AUW), Bangladesh.

Jade Anderson is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the Australian National University.

Parisa Azari is a Ph.D. student in the Common Law Program at the University of Ottawa.

Jonathan Birtwell Jonathan is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge exploring issues surrounding access to higher education for students with refugee backgrounds in Malaysia.

Mark E. Breeze is a licensed architect and an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement.

Robin Bush is the Asia Foundations Country Representative for Malaysia. She is also a co-founder of JAPPSI (Indonesian Refugees and Asylum Seekers Advocacy Network).

Dr Jennifer K. Carson is an environmental scientist, a science communicator, and runs Ghost Media, Australia.

Kabita Chakraborty is an Associate Professor in the Children, Childhood and Youth Program at York University.

Jessica M. Chapman works as the Director of Community Engagement at the Ethiopian Community Development Council, USA.

Hui Yin Chuah is a Senior Research Associate at the Asia School of Business.

Suparna Das is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Asian University for Women (AUW), Bangladesh.

Dr Robin C. Duncan is the Dean of the Metcalf School of Education at California Baptist University, USA.

Rez Gardi is an international lawyer and a human rights activist from New Zealand. She is the founder of Empower and the co-founder of Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Jennifer Ward George is currently a PhD researcher in the Department of Engineering at Cambridge and also co-chairs the Sustainable Shelter Group at the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement.

Barbara Harrell-Bond was founding Director of the Research Studies Center (RSC) (formerly Research Studies Program (RSP)), 19821996. She began her academic career as an anthropologist conducting research in an urban housing estate near Oxford. She received a Diploma in Social Anthropology (Dis.), an M. Litt. and a D.PHIL. at the University of Oxford. As a member of the staff at the Department of Anthropology, University of Edinburgh, her first research in Africa in 1967 looked at marriage among the professional group in Sierra Leone. On the basis of this research she went on to specialize in the anthropology of law, as a researcher at the Afrika-Studiecentrum, Leiden and teaching for the Faculty of Law, University of Warwick. In 1982 she began research on the delivery of humanitarian assistance, particularly by the United Nations and its agencies, international and human rights law, especially as this affects refugees, asylum seekers, and other displaced population groups, development, ethnicity, and gender issues. The majority of her research was conducted in Africa, but she also carried out fieldwork in the Middle East and Central and Southern Europe. She served as a consultant to many international humanitarian organizations such as the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the EU, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the World Food Program. She was been the recipient of many research grants, and, in 1996, was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the American Anthropological Association.