Securitization and Community-Based Protection Among Chin Refugees in Kuala Lumpur

This article examines refugee-led community organizations among Chin refugees from Myanmar in Kuala Lumpur. It uses a structuration analysis that recognizes refugee-led organizations as complex governance entities engaged in a dynamic relationship with (among others) national policies of securitization of forced migration and international humanitarian governance. This approach expands the existing literature on the securitization of forced migration by exploring refugees’ lived experiences in a context of south–south migration. It expands the literature on community-based protection by going beyond recognizing the existence of refugee-led organizations to analyse their construction, constitution and consequences. Three primary areas of work by Chin refugee groups are analysed in relation to their immediate activity and longer term effects: organization (‘building ethnic unity in adversity’), documentation (‘asserting a bureaucratic identity’) and socialization (‘learning to be illegal’). These long-term effects indicate the possible impact of local protection activities on macrostructural processes such as identity construction and migration choices.construction, constitution and consequences. Three primary areas of work by Chin refugee groups are analysed in relation to their immediate activity and longer term effects: organization (‘building ethnic unity in adversity’), documentation (‘asserting a bureaucratic identity’) and socialization (‘learning to be illegal’). These long-term effects indicate the possible impact of local protection activities on macrostructural processes such as identity construction and migration choices

Corte interamericana de derechos humanos caso no 12.688 Nadege Dorzema y otros vs República Dominicana amicus curiae sobre los estándares internacionales relevantes relacionados con la discriminación racial

The Equal Rights Trust. Corte interamericana de derechos humanos caso no 12.688 Nadege Dorzema y otros vs República Dominicana amicus curiae sobre los estándares internacionales relevantes relacionados con la discriminación racial. In: Revue Québécoise de droit international, hors-série novembre 2013. Defending the Human Rights of Migrants in the Americas: The Nadège Dorzema et al v Dominican Republic Case pp. 217-251

Corte interamericana de derechos humanos caso no 12.688 Nadege Dorzema y otros vs República Dominicana amicus curiae sobre los estándares internacionales relevantes relacionados con la discriminación racial

The Equal Rights Trust. Corte interamericana de derechos humanos caso no 12.688 Nadege Dorzema y otros vs República Dominicana amicus curiae sobre los estándares internacionales relevantes relacionados con la discriminación racial. In: Revue Québécoise de droit international, hors-série novembre 2013. Defending the Human Rights of Migrants in the Americas: The Nadège Dorzema et al v Dominican Republic Case pp. 217-251

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The resistible rise of Islamophobia: anti-Muslim racism in the UK and Australia before 11 September 2001

This article compares the rise of anti-Muslim racism in Britain and Australia, from 1989 to 2001, as a foundation for assessing the extent to which the upsurge of Islamophobia after 11 September was a development of existing patterns of racism in these two countries. The respective histories of immigration and settlement by Muslim populations are outlined, along with the relevant immigration and ‘ethnic affairs’ policies and the resulting demographics. The article traces the ideologies of xenophobia that developed in Britain and Australia over this period. It records a transition from anti-Asian and anti-Arab racism to anti-Muslim racism, reflected in and responding to changes in the identities and cultural politics of the minority communities. It outlines instances of the racial and ethnic targeting by the state of the ethnic and religious minorities concerned, and postulates a causal relationship between this and the shifting patterns of acts of racial hatred, vilification and discrimination