Refugees in South Asia: Political Membership, Nation-Building Projects and Securitisation of Human Flows

Chatterjee, Shibashis; Das, Udayan

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“…The literature shows that in the Asian region refugee issues are often treated as a traditional security issue (Ali Ashraf, 2021;Chatterjee & Das, 2022;Choi, 2019;Rana & Riaz, 2022). This does not mean that we should look at refugee protection in Asia solely as a state responsibility or a traditional security matter.…”

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“…In a culturally and politically diverse region, characterised by a lack of a coherent approach to refugee protection, the literature seems to focus on state security as a crucial feature in refugee and asylum seeker matters (see, for instance, Ali Ashraf, 2021;Chatterjee & Das, 2022;Choi, 2019;Rana & Riaz, 2022). In this collective work, we emphasise how state security is not sufficient to fully understand the complexity behind refugee and asylum seeker acceptance, protection, and integration in Asia.…”

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Momesso,

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2024

Palgrave Macmillan Studies on Human Rights in Asia

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This chapter starts by discussing the timeliness and significance of the topic of refugee policies and experiences in Japan and Taiwan. It defines two main and interrelated objectives of this volume which are: (1) to further scientific knowledge on the relatively understudied subjects of the acceptance, protection, and integration of refugees and asylum seekers in Japan and Taiwan, and (2) to raise public awareness of their plight in the hope that this promotes positive policy changes. The book attempts to achieve these objectives by examining three aspects of refugee-related issues which correspond to the three main parts of the book: (1) legal and policy frameworks, (2) media representation and public opinion, and (3) lived experiences of refugees and asylum seekers. This chapter proceeds by examining the role of human security as an overarching conceptual framework to help to fulfil both objectives. The subsequent two sections examine the existing refugee regimes in Taiwan and Japan, respectively. This introduction closes by highlighting the contribution of each chapter to the main ideas of the volume.

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