Protection of refugees and displaced persons in the Asia Pacific region / edited by Angus Francis and Rowena Maguire, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

"The chapters in this book explore regional developments in the enforcement of international refugee protection and displaced persons protections in the Asia Pacific region. Drawing on their expertise across a number of jurisdictions, the contributors assess the challenges confronting the implementa...

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Other Authors: Francis, Angus (Editor), Maguire, Rowena (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2013]
Series:Law, ethics and governance.
Subjects:
Refugees > Legal status, laws, etc. > Pacific Area.
Responsibility to protect (International law) > Pacific Area.
Humanitarian intervention > Pacific Area.
Asylum, Right of > Pacific Area.
Forced migration > Pacific Area.
Physical Description:xiii, 252 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Shifting powers : protection of refugees and displaced persons in the Asia Pacific Region / Angus Francis, Rowena Maguire
  • Responsibility, regionalism and refugees : what lessons for Australia? / Penelope Mathew
  • Civil society and the fight for refugee rights in the Asia Pacific Region / Savitri Taylor
  • The search for protection in Southeast Asia / Taya Hunt, Nikola Errington
  • Refugee protection in China : the issue of citizenship and potential solutions / Liang Shuying
  • Prospects for refugee rights in Hong Kong : towards the legalization and expansion of protection from refoulement / Kelley Loper
  • Migration and the refugee regime in Malaysia : implications for a regional solution / Amarjit Kaur
  • Challenges and opportunities in respecting international refugee law in Indonesia / Bhatara Ibnu Reza
  • Irregular migration, refugee protection and the 'Malaysian solution' / Peter Billings, Anthony Cassimatis, with Marissa Dooris
  • Revisiting the concept of protection in international refugee law : implications of the protracted refugee situation on the Thai-Myanmar border / Akiko Okudaira, Hitoshi Nasu
  • Internally displaced persons in Northern Thailand : involuntary relocation and the need for regulation / Photchanat Intaramanon
  • The international regulation of persons displaced by climate change / Rowena Maguire, Louise Kruger
  • Conceptualising climate-induced displacement in Bangladesh / Mostafa Mahmud Naser.