Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia

Susan Kneebone is a Professorial Fellow and Senior Associate of the Asian Law Centre and Research Affiliate of the McMullin Statelessness Centre, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. She is the Chief Investigator of the Australian Research Council Discovery Project 180100685 Indonesia’s Refugee Policies: Responsibility, Security and Regionalism and currently working on an Australia Research Council (‘ARC’) funded project on ‘The Role of Community Sponsorship for Refugee Resettlement in Australia’.

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