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Implementation of a Mental Health Care Package for Children in Areas of Armed Conflict: A Case Study from Burundi, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Sudan

In our 27th edition, we again consider psycho-social interventions with children in areas of armed conflict. Here we present this overview of a large scale child psychosocial and mental health research/practice programme, implemented in five countries. Each country project used a school population based multi-tiered model of care – with a triage system enabling children … Continue reading Implementation of a Mental Health Care Package for Children in Areas of Armed Conflict: A Case Study from Burundi, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Sudan

E-Journal: Refugee Watch Online

Refugee Watch online is a co-publication of Refugee Watch on the flow of refugees, other victims of forced migration, and the internally displaced persons in South Asia. It presents news and views, critiques and analyses of policies of the States and international humanitarian institutions with regard to forced migration and forced population flows across the … Continue reading E-Journal: Refugee Watch Online

The Citizenship Status of the Urdu-Speakers/Biharis in Bangladesh

Paulsen, E. (2006). The citizenship status of the Urdu-speakers/ Biharis in Bangladesh. Refugee Survey Quarterly. 25(3). 54-69. Introduction It is commonly estimated that there are some 240,000 to 500,000 Urdu-speakers – popularly known as “stranded Pakistanis” or “Biharis” – who are normally considered as existing in a situation of statelessness in Bangladesh. Bangladesh is neither a party to … Continue reading The Citizenship Status of the Urdu-Speakers/Biharis in Bangladesh

Centre for Migration Research and Development (CMRD)

The Centre for Migration Research and Development is a non profit company based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The three members who founded the body, discussed the concept in 2010 and commenced implementing it in 2011 which led to its registration in 2012. There were a number of drivers motivating them to formulate a research entity, … Continue reading Centre for Migration Research and Development (CMRD)

Development of concepts on nationality and the efforts to reduce statelessness in Thailand

Saisoonthorn, P. K. (2006). Development of concepts on nationality and the efforts to reduce statelessness in Thailand. Refugee Survey Quarterly. 25(3). 40-53.  INTRODUCTION This article addresses three important issues: (1) the development of nationality laws in Thailand, (2) efforts of the Royal Thai Government (RTG) to solve problems of statelessness3 in Thai society; and (3) … Continue reading Development of concepts on nationality and the efforts to reduce statelessness in Thailand

The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

Scott, J. (2009). The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. Yale Press.  For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that … Continue reading The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

The Excluded: The strange hidden world of the stateless

The Excluded: The strange hidden world of the stateless, Refugees Magazine, No. 147, Issue 3, 2007  

Good practices for the Identification, Prevention and Reduction of statelessness and the Protection of stateless persons in South East Asia

Van Waas, L.E. (March 2011). “Good practices for the Identification, Prevention and Reduction of statelessness and the Protection of stateless persons in South East Asia”, UNHCR. This paper provides an overview of good practices relating to the identification, prevention and reduction of statelessness and the protection of stateless persons in South East Asia. It covers … Continue reading Good practices for the Identification, Prevention and Reduction of statelessness and the Protection of stateless persons in South East Asia

Bhutanese refugees in Nepal: Anticipating the impact of resettlement

Banki, S. (2008). Bhutanese refugees in Nepal: Anticipating the impact of resettlement. Sydney: Austcare, Griffith University. http://www.austcare.org.au/media/56970/arcnepalbp-lowres.pdf

The durable solution discourse and refugee resettlement: the Bhutanese in Nepal

Banki, S. (2008). The durable solution discourse and refugee resettlement: the Bhutanese in Nepal.  In H. Adelman, (ed.), Protracted displacement in Asia: No place to call home. London: Ashgate.