Full Description
Despite being long-term hosts to refugee populations, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia are not yet part of the 1951 Refugee Convention. In all three states, refugees are regulated as discretionary humanitarian exceptions to immigration legislation. With contributions from scholars within and outside the region, this book promotes new thinking on protection of refugees and on resolving tensions between states, actors and institutions in the region. It evaluates the key concepts of sovereignty, security and humanitarianism in this context, the different bases of protection by state and non-state actors and the meaning of responsibility and regionalism in Southeast Asia.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Erika Feller
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Historical Moments and Perspectives on Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia
Chapter 1. The Limits of Refugee Protection in Urban Southeast Asia: A View from Above and Below
Itty Abraham
Chapter 2. Asylum and Refugee Protection in Thailand's History: Between Sovereignty and Humanitarianism
Bongkot Napaumporn and Susan Kneebone
Chapter 3. 'Partial Protection' for Refugees: Aspirations of Refugee Activists in Indonesia
Realisa D Masardi
Part II: Country Studies
Chapter 4. A Responsible Sovereign? Between Sovereignty and Responsibility in Refugee and Asylum Seeker Protection in Indonesia: The Case of the Presidential Regulation No. 125 of 2016
Hestutomo Restu Kuncoro and Atin Prabandari
Chapter 5. Approaching Thailand's National Screening Mechanism Through Affective Governmentality: Protection and Competent Governance or Maintaining the Status Quo?
Kate Coddington
Chapter 6. The (Un)official Refugee Protection Regimes in Malaysia: What Is the Way Forward?
Gerhard Hoffstaedter and Aslam Abd Jalil
Part III: The Refugee Convention: Protection by Non-State Actors
Chapter 7. Are Sovereignty and Humanitarianism Mutually Exclusive? An Exploration of the Role of Civil Society in Bridging the Gap
David Keegan, Evan Jones and Mitra Khakbaz
Chapter 8. The Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN) and the Promotion of Refugee Rights in Southeast Asia
Savitri Taylor
Chapter 9. Non-state Actors' Practices and Agency in Indonesian Refugee Protection: The Importance of Communities of Practice
Nino Viartasiwi
Part IV: Concluding
Chapter 10. Sovereign States and Refugee Rights Protection in ASEAN
Sriprapha Petcharamesree
Conclusion: Sovereignty, Responsibility and Human Rights
Susan Kneebone, Reyvi Mariñas and Max Walden
Index
