Abstract
Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia: Between Humanitarianism and Sovereignty argues that Southeast Asia, often viewed as deficient due to limited participation in the 1951 Refugee Convention, has instead developed a distinct postcolonial refugee regime that warrants analysis on its own terms. The present work builds on two earlier foundational works. Davies (2008) emphasized norm contestation and state resistance, inaugurating the dominant view in refugee studies of “persistent rejection” of the 1951 Refugee Convention regime by ASEAN states; on the other hand, Moretti (2022) challenged that view by framing refugee protection initiatives of states in the region—including by those that are non-convention parties—as somehow consistent with customary international law. The present book advances the conversation to the next level by providing a more plural, empirically grounded, but theoretically integrated account of Southeast Asian refugee governance, one that extends earlier accounts beyond law-centered and state-centric discourses.
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