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17th June 2020

The Government and Armed Groups Enforce a New Border Regime

The safe return of migrant workers from Thailand amid the pandemic has required an unprecedented degree of cooperation between the government and arme...
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Thailand South Asia and Southeast Asia Myanmar Migration Coronavirus Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Briefing paper

7th May 2020

Beyond Relief: Securing Livelihoods and Agency for Rohingya ...

An exploration of mobility, hardship, and livelihoods among refugee families living in the camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Myanmar Malaysia Bangladesh Transnational Flows Migration Conflict Economies Borderlands

Blog

15th April 2020

Women for Peace in the “Land of Promise”

Wahida A. Abdullah,
Mindanao, despite its legacy as a strife-ridden region, is still known to us as the “Land of Promise.”
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Southeast Asia South Asia and Southeast Asia Coronavirus Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Blog

14th April 2020

Peace and the Pandemic: The Impact of COVID-19 on Conflict i...

Adam Burke
Disasters and crises—floods, earthquakes, wars, and of course pandemics—shine an unforgiving light on society’s problems and tensions. As the Covid-19...
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Southeast Asia South Asia and Southeast Asia South Asia Coronavirus Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Article

10th April 2020

How the Kayin BGF’s Business Interests Put Myanmar at Risk o...

As the coronavirus spread around the world from China in February, the Kayin State Border Guard Force smuggled into Myanmar thousands of Chinese worke...
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Transnational Flows Borderlands

Blog

5th February 2020

Mapping the Rohingya Diaspora: Lessons From the Camps 

Kawsher Ahamed, Rezaun Nahid Mercy
A violent campaign of persecution has driven an exodus of Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority from the northern state of Rakhine into neighboring count...
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Migration Conflict Response Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Blog

22nd January 2020

Afghanistan’s Borderlands: Unruly, Unruled, and Central to P...

In Games without Rules, author and former Asia Foundation colleague Tamim Ansary argues that bringing rural Afghanistan under centralized rule has bee...
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Conflict Response Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Blog

4th December 2019

Braving the Waves: Gray-Market Trade and Maritime Security i...

Starjoan Villanueva
It’s business as usual for cross-border trade in the Sulu Archipelago, off the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, where enterprising men and wome...
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Transnational Flows Conflict Economies

Newsletter

18th November 2019

Peripheral Vision: Views from the Borderlands – Fall 2019

Joint bulletin from the X-Border Local research Network about recent research and activities from The Asia Foundation, Rift Valley Institute, and Carn...
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Middle East and North Africa Horn of Africa and the Sahel Transnational Flows Conflict Response Conflict Economies Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Research report

31st October 2019

Trade in the Sulu Archipelago: Informal Economies Amidst Mar...

Starjoan Villanueva, Nathan Shea, Kathline Anne Tolosa
This study describes the networks involved in the trade of high value goods and commodities across the Sulu archipelago.
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Southeast Asia South Asia and Southeast Asia Philippines Malaysia Indonesia Transnational Flows Conflict Economies

Research report

30th August 2019

Trade and Livelihoods in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderland...

A study of the importance of cross-border trade for livelihoods and the economy of border districts.
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Pakistan Afghanistan Conflict Economies Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

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