12
Jul
Book Review: Migrations – a history of where we all come from
Dorling Kindersley, a Penguin Random House Company, London, 2022, 287 pages Dorling Kindersley, the education and lifestyle publisher, has assembled a dozen contributors with relevant backgrounds to compile this attractive and comprehensive, albeit concise, survey of world migration history. It includes forced migration from 1900 onwards, which is about one-third of the book. It’s an... Read More
6
Jul
Researching Tibetan youth in Delhi
By Kanchan Gandhi, Jessica James, Kanchandeep, Katyayni Mishra, Rohit Raj This blog post is collaboratively written by Dr Kanchan Gandhi and her students from the urban studies program at Dr B.R. Ambedkar University, Delhi. The voice of each author is identified by their names preceding their writing. Dr. Kanchan Gandhi: In January 2023 I... Read More
30
May
Book Review: “My Fourth Time, We Drowned: seeking refuge on the world’s deadliest migration route” by Sally Hayden
Hayden, S “My Fourth Time, We Drowned: seeking refuge on the world’s deadliest migration route” 4th Estate, an imprint of Harper Collins, 2022, 480 pages Sally Hayden is a young and energetic freelance journalist, who travelled frequently all over Europe and North Africa in the three years from late 2018 to late 2021, when she... Read More
25
Apr
Expanding Humanitarian Parole
In January of 2023, the Biden Administration formally announced its new approach to border enforcement and immigration policy. Facing the inevitable end of Title 42, the White House issued both a carrot and a stick: the expansion of legal pathways to enter the United States at its southern border, accompanied by harsher consequences for individuals... Read More
11
Apr
Together, they grow
How an NGO rebuilds the lives of Rohingya refugees in the Indian district of Nuh In 2022, more than 3,500 Rohingya refugees attempted to cross the sea in deadly boats which kept drifting on the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal for several weeks. The UNHCR reports show that this number is a 360%... Read More
7
Apr
The ASB-UNHCR Research Workshop on Refugee Studies and Forced Displacement 2023
The ASB-UNHCR Research Workshop on Refugee Studies and Forced Displacement 2023 will be held at the Asia School of Business, Kuala Lumpur on the 19th and 20th of June 2023. This third workshop, hosted in conjunction with World Refugee Day 2023, marks the return of the workshop after a three-year hiatus due to the Covid-19... Read More
21
Mar
The Role of the Environment and Objects for Refugees and its Implications for Therapy: A Psychoanalytic Approach
“And as the sun sets in the West, You will shed a tear, Longing to be back in the East. Immigrant.” Nishant Akhtar (Akhtar, 1999, pp.20) This poignant quote delicately articulates the losses that migrants experience when leaving their home country. Being forced to leave one’s homeland entails an immeasurable amount of pain and is... Read More
13
Mar
Book review: The Refugee System: a Sociological Approach – Rawan Arar and David Scott Fitzgerald
The Refugee System: a Sociological Approach, Rawan Arar and David Scott Fitzgerald, Polity Press, 2023, 316 pages US researchers Arar and Fitzgerald are promoting a sociological “systems approach” to refugee research as an alternative to what they call the prevailing “siloed” approach by lawyers, legal and other academics, and government/organisational professionals. They believe the mitigation... Read More
13
Mar
Why Cultural Contextualization Matters: Books Unbound’s program with Rohingya girls in the world’s largest refugee camp
The Rohingya Crisis The Rohingya are an ethnic minority from Rakhine State, Myanmar. Like many other ethnic groups in Myanmar, they have been victims of religious persecution and genocide by the Burmese military. For years, the diaspora has grown as Rohingya flee to neighboring countries for safety and opportunity. In August 2017, an outbreak of... Read More
21
Feb
The Rohingyas in No Man’s Land have fled to Bangladesh
After the latest genocide in August 2017 more than 700,000 Rohingyas fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar. However, since then around 6,000 Rohingyas who could not flee or who were not interested to go to Bangladesh have been stranded in no man’s land on the Myanmar-Bangladesh border. Rohingyas are the ethnic religious minority group who have... Read More