International Research Cluster: Conflict-Induced Displacement and Socio-Economic Resilience: Learning From Neglected Conflicts in Cameroon and Myanmar

Project Outputs:

• Becker, Simon (2023). Missed Opportunities? Understanding the Unmet Potential in Labor Market Integration of Myanmar Refugees and Migrants in Thailand. MA Thesis: University of Cologne.
   
• Forji, Angelus Efeutlancha (2023). Conflict-Induced Livelihood Changes and Strategies of Internally Displaced Persons in Bafoussam in the West Region of Cameroon. MA Thesis: University of Bamenda.
   
• Kengne, Eli Nembot (2023). Labour Market Integration and Return Perception of Forced Migrants in Bafoussam in the West Region of Cameroon. MA Thesis: University of Bamenda.
   
• Thwe, Su Myat (2023a). Intersectionality and livelihoods of conflict-induced displaced Myanmar women in Mae Sot, Thailand. MA Thesis: Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD). 5915. DOI: 10.58837/CHULA.THE.2022.204 available at https://digital.car.chula.ac.th/chulaetd/5915
   
• Thwe, Su Myat (2023b). Intersectionality and livelihoods of conflict-induced displaced Myanmar women in Mae Sot, Thailand. Panel 1 on Migrant Worker. International Hybrid Conference on “Current Issues in Human Rights and Development Research” 2023 (E-Proceedings) (pp. 71-79). Bangkok: Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University and MA International Development Studies (MAIDS), Chulalongkorn University Thailand. Available at https://ihrp.mahidol.ac.th/2023/international-hybrid-conference-on-current-issues-in-human-rights-and-development-research-2023/

Previous Work:

• Balgah, Roland Azibo & Kimengsi, Jude Ndzifon (2019). Can Policy Deviance Reduce Poverty? A Critical Analysis of Self-Return Migration in Cameroon. International Social Science Journal  69(232), 87-103. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/issj.12212
    
• Balgah, Roland Azibo & Kimengsi, Jude Ndzifon (2022). A review of drivers of environmental non-migration decisions in Africa. Regional Environmental Change, 22(125), 2-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-022-01970-8
   
• Balgah, R.A. & Yibongka, H.M. (2024). Conflict-Induced Displacement and Livelihood Dynamics of Internally Displaced Persons and Host Families. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4859680  or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4859680
   
• Bang, Henry Ngenyam & Balgah, Roland Azibo (2022). The ramification of Cameroon's Anglophone crisis: Conceptual analysis of a looming "Complex Disaster Emergency". Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 7(1), 6. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41018-022-00114-1
   
• Bate, Nelson Ashu & Balgah, Roland Azibo & Yenshu, Emmanuel (2022). Conflict and Livelihood Changes in the South West Region of Cameroon: A Social Capital Perspective. International Journal of Social Sciences Perspectives, 12(1), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.33094/ijssp.v12i1.682
   
• Buchenrieder, Gertrud & Mack, Christina & Balgah, Roland Azibo (2017). Human Security and Relocation of Internally Displaced Environmental Refugees in Cameroon. Refugee Survey Quarterly, 36(3), 20-47. DOI:10.1093/rsq/hdx005 
   
• Buchenrieder, Gertrud & Brandl, Julian & Balgah, Roland Azibo (2021). The Perception of Flood Risks: A Case Study of Babessi in Rural Cameroon. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 12, 1-12.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-021-00345-7
   
• Collignon, Stefan (2020). Regional Development Banks and their Potential for Myanmar. Source: http://www.stefancollignon.de/PDF/Regional%20development%20banks%20for%20Myanmar%20final.pdf (29.09.2022)
   
• Jittiang, Bhanubhatra Kaan (2021). Human Capital and the Employment Situations of Urban Refugees in Thailand. Asylum Access Thailand.
   
• Jittiang, Bhanubhatra Kaan (2022a). Policy Entrepreneurship and the Drafting of Refugee Law in a Non-Signatory Country: The Case of Thailand’s National Screening Mechanism. Journal of Refugee Studies, 35(4), 1492–1507. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feac032
   
• Jittiang, Bhanubhatra Kaan (2022b). Ad hoc and as usual: Thai Government’s Responses to the Myanmar Crisis since the 2021 Coup. Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect.
   
• Jittiang, Bhanubhatra Kaan (2022c). In the name of national security: Thailand and the securitisation of the Rohingya. In: Al Khanif and Khoo Ying Hooi, ‘Marginalisation and Human Rights in Southeast Asia’, Routledge, New York.
   
• KCAT (2021a). Humanitarian Crisis in Kachin State. Kachin Context Analysis Team.
   
• KCAT (2021b). Human Rights Situation Report after the Coup in Myanmar. Kachin Context Analysis Team.
   
• KCAT (2022). Post-Coup Situation Analysis and Reporting, Kachin State (February 2021 – April 2022). Kachin Context Analysis Team.
   
• KCAT (2023a). Post-Coup Conflict, Human Rights and Socioeconomics (February 2021 – February 2023). Advocacy Briefing Paper. Kachin Context Analysis Team.
   
• KCAT (2023b). Political Survey of Kachin Region, Myanmar. Kachin Context Analysis Team.
   
• Pelican, Michaela (2022). The Anglophone conflict in Cameroon – historical and political background. Freiburg: ABI Working Paper 20. https://www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/the-anglophone-conflict-in-cameroon-historical-and-political-background
    
• Pelican, Michaela & Schumann, Kim & Plücken, Sina & Drew, David (2022). Mbororo under Attack: Extreme Speech and Violence in the Anglophone Conflict in Cameroon. Freiburg: ABI Working Paper 21. https://www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/mbororo-under-attack-extreme-speech-and-violence-in-the-anglophone-conflict-in-cameroon
   
• Unor, Anthony & Thabchumpon, Naruemon (2023). Being Black and trying to survive in a niche economy: Nigerian traders in Bangkok. In: Gozdziak and Supang Chantavanich, ‘African migration to Thailand - Race, Mobility and Integration’, Routledge, New York.
   
• Zau Tu, Francis (2023). No Place like Home: Emotional and Rational Decision-Making of Kachin IDPs Returning amid Ongoing Postcoup Conflict. The Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD), Chiang Mai University.