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Friday, June 7, 2024
Digital counter-surveillance by refugees from Myanmar in Thailand... More
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Authors: Nyi Nyi Kyaw and Caitlin McCaffrie Executive Summary Myanmar has long been the primary source of displacement in Southeast Asia, with waves of conflict forcing people of different ages, genders and ethnicities to flee from their homes over decades. Refugees and people seeking asylum from Myanmar live across Southeast and South Asia, often... More
Saturday, March 16, 2024
The online "Internal Displacement and Solutions" conference took place from March 14-15, 2024 and marks the culmination of five years of increasing international engagement with the pressing challenge of ‘solutions’ to internal displacement. In 2024, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Solutions to Internal Displacement will wrap... More
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
The international conference on "Gender, Geopolitics, and Forced Migration" took place on March 4-5, 2024, in Bangkok, Thailand. Aligned with International Women’s Month 2024's theme of "Inspire Inclusion," the conference aimed to advocate for Gender Equality through advocating for a gender-sensitive approach to geopolitics in international... More
Thursday, September 21, 2023
IDRC Research Chair, Nyi Nyi Kyaw, recently presented his paper titled "Migration, Citizenship, and Identity Documentation: Citizenship and Pseudo/Partial Citizenship of Myanmar Migrants in Thailand" at the Migration and Citizenship Pathways in Asia conference. This conference, hosted by the Asia Research Institute at the National University of... More
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
The IDRC Research Chairs in Ghana and Burkina Faso have been officially selected. Mary Setrana Boatemaa, Director of the Centre for Migration Studies at the University of Ghana, Ghana, and Tiga Alain Ouedraogo of the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique et Technologique (CNRST) were appointed. The selection was celebrated at a launching... More
Sunday, March 12, 2023
Professor Paula Banerjee is appointed IDRC Research Chair on Gender and Forced Displacement at the Asian Institute of Technology’s Gender and Development Studies (GDS) Program in the School of Environment, Resource, and Development. Professor Banerjee, who has a long research experience and publication record on forced migration and gender in... More
Friday, October 21, 2022
Dr. Nyi Nyi Kyaw, the IDRC Research Chair in Thailand, has assumed the role of Editor for the Statelessness and Citizenship Review, based at the University of Melbourne in Australia. The Statelessness & Citizenship Review stands as the pioneering journal dedicated entirely to advancing the comprehension of statelessness and related citizenship... More
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