List of Illustrations

Foreword
Erika Feller

Preface
List of Abbreviations

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

Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia

Between Humanitarianism and Sovereignty

Edited by Susan Kneebone, Reyvi Mariñas, Antje Missbach and Max Walden

Foreword by Erika Feller

344 pages, 7 ills., bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-80539-780-9 Hb Published (December 2024)

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“I believe this book is the first of its kind, especially in terms of the theoretical structure and goals ... it promises new thinking, insights and epistemologies.” • Liliana Lyra Jubilut, Catholic University of Santos, Brazil.

“This is a valuable contribution to the growing interdisciplinary literature on refugee protection in Southeast Asia. It represents some of the leading voices in the scholarly community engaged with refugee protection in Southeast Asia.” • Martin Jones, University of York

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.

Susan Kneebone is Professorial Fellow and Senior Associate of the Asian Law Centre and Research Affiliate of the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne

Reyvi Mariñas is Research Fellow on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project 180100685: Indonesia’s Refugee Policies: Responsibility, Security and Regionalism at Melbourne Law School

Antje Missbach is Professor of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany and a Partner Investigator on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project 180100685.

Max Walden is a PhD student and Research Assistant under the Australian Research Council Discovery Project 180100685 at Melbourne Law School.

Series: Volume 51, Forced Migration

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Area: Asia

LC: HV640.5.A78 R44 2025

BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; SOC066000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Refugees; POL035010 POLITICAL SCIENCE/Political Freedom & Security/Human Rights

available Open Access with funding from the Australian Research Council and the Open Access Publication Fund of Bielefeld University and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

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Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia

Between Humanitarianism and Sovereignty

Edited by Susan Kneebone, Reyvi Mariñas, Antje Missbach and Max Walden

Foreword by Erika Feller

Series: Volume 51, Forced Migration

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Area: Asia

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Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia

Between Humanitarianism and Sovereignty

Edited by Susan Kneebone, Reyvi Mariñas, Antje Missbach and Max Walden

Foreword by Erika Feller

Series: Volume 51, Forced Migration

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Area: Asia

This title is published as Open Access

Full Text PDF | Full Text ePUB Made available under a CC