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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
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Authors: Kristian Stokke, Nyi Nyi Kyaw Abstract Resistance against autocratization is an important contemporary issue that calls for increased scholarly attention. The global wave of autocratization has generated a proliferation of research on the drivers of autocratization, but fewer studies on the possibilities, strategies, spatialities, and... More
We are thrilled to announce that IDRC Chair on Forced Displacement in Southeast Asia, Dr. Nyi Nyi Kyaw has achieved another remarkable milestone by being elected as a distinguished member of the International Advisory Board of the Academy in Exile in Germany! We look forward to witnessing the positive impact of Dr. Nyi Nyi... More
Author: Nyi Nyi Kyaw Tougher times await Myanmar migrant workers in Southeast Asia. Two recent orders issued by Myanmar’s junta State Administration Council (SAC) in September will result in higher costs of moving, living and working abroad for migrant workers and a fall in their disposable income and savings. The first is the order... More
Saturday, December 9, 2023
Last week, it was my privilege to accompany the twelve IDRC Research Chairs on Forced Displacement to the 2023 Global Refugee Forum (GRF) in Geneva. Organized by UNHCR, the goal of the GRF is to get member states to make pledges to help refugees, both within their countries and abroad. In the past,... 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
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
On May 30 and 31, in Dar es-Salaam Tanzania, something revolutionary happened. Twelve experts from some of the places most impacted by forced displacement gathered in person for the inaugural workshop of the IDRC Research Chairs Network on Forced Displacement. Funded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre, and with support from... 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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