Forced Migration in Southeast Asia: A Brief Overview of Current Research

Q1 Social Sciences

Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies Pub Date : 2019-12-26 DOI:10.14764/10.ASEAS-0024

G. Stange, P. Sakdapolrak, Kwanchit Sasiwongsaroj, Matthias Kourek

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Abstract

Southeast Asian countries host significant numbers of forcibly displaced populations, both within countries and across borders. This brief review paper provides a basic overview on recent forced migration research in Southeast Asia for the period 2013 to 2018. To this end, a keyword search with two predefined sets of search terms was carried out in the Web of Science database in September 2018. The identified research literature corpus was then analyzed regarding persons of concern, study site(s) (country/ies) as well as main drivers of migration. The results show that the major part of studies focuses on refugees and asylum seekers in the region’s main host countries, namely Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. This correspondence between current research trends and the distribution of refugees and asylum seekers in Southeast Asia could, however, not be identified for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Although Southeast Asian countries account for a substantial share of worldwide IDPs, only a very limited number of identified studies focus on this group of persons of concern.

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东南亚被迫移民:当前研究综述

东南亚国家收容了大量被迫流离失所的人口，既有国内的，也有跨境的。这篇简短的综述文章提供了2013年至2018年东南亚近期被迫移民研究的基本概况。为此，我们于2018年9月在Web of Science数据库中使用两组预定义的搜索词进行了关键词搜索。然后对确定的研究文献语料库进行分析，包括关注的人、研究地点(国家/地区)以及移民的主要驱动因素。结果表明，研究的主要部分集中在该地区主要收容国，即泰国、马来西亚和印度尼西亚的难民和寻求庇护者。然而，目前的研究趋势与东南亚难民和寻求庇护者的分布之间的这种对应关系在国内流离失所者(国内流离失所者)中无法确定。虽然东南亚国家占全世界境内流离失所者的很大份额，但只有数量非常有限的已查明的研究集中于这一令人关切的群体。

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Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies Social Sciences-Social Sciences (all)

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2.20

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审稿时长

45 weeks

期刊介绍： The Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies (ASEAS) is an international, interdisciplinary and open access social sciences journal covering a variety of topics (culture, economics, geography, politics, society) from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Topics should be related to Southeast Asia, but are not restricted to the geographical region, when spatial and political borders of Southeast Asia are crossed or transcended, e.g., in the case of linguistics, diaspora groups or forms of socio-cultural transfer. ASEAS publishes two focus issues per year and we welcome out-of-focus submissions at any time. The journal invites both established as well as young scholars to present research results and theoretical and methodical discussions, to report about on-going research projects or field studies, to publish conference reports, to conduct interviews with experts in the field, and to review relevant books. Articles can be submitted in German or English.