In the arrivals of Rohingya refugees in Aceh, Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs) leverage religious traditions and ethical values to foster government and community support. This study examines the role of three FBOs-Yayasan Kemanusiaan Madani Indonesia (YKMI), Dompet Dhuafa (DD), and Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Indonesia-in facilitating refugee reception and advocating for their basic rights. Through field interviews and thematic analysis, we explore how religious motivations, rooted in theological principles and ethical traditions, inspire both institutional and personal commitment to promoting hospitality and protection. Religious identity allows FBOs to mobilize communities, leverage moral authority with religious leaders to counter negative narratives, and advocate for more humane policies. Beyond providing material assistance, the FBOs help shape discourse on dignity, hospitality, and protection in Indonesia's refugee context by bridging the gap between state institutions and local communities.
This article examines family migration from North Korea, analyzing how migration strategies emerge from the interaction between intensified social control under Kim Jong Un and transnational householding. Drawing on interviews with 61 North Korean migrants who left between 2018 and 2020 and resettled in South Korea, it argues that households used gendered sequencing, staggered departures, and selective household reconfiguration to manage cross-border risk. These strategies were constrained by kinship-based systems of social classification and collective punishment. By centering the household, the article shows how family ties facilitate cross-border mobility while serving as a mechanism through which the state exercises control.
Scant literature exists on Korean youth in Malaysia and whether they have escaped the systemic issues facing their peers in South Korea. How does migration to Malaysia shape their outlook for the future and their life-course plans, such as finding stable employment, getting married, having children, and purchasing a home? Focusing on the hopes and dreams of Korean Gen MZ international students and self-initiated expatriates in Malaysia, this paper argues that Korean youth face ambivalence between chasing specs and enjoying fringe benefits derived from slower temporalities and the less-developed nature of Malaysia.
This study examines female internal migration in China under climate-related shocks within a push-and-pull framework. It combines longitudinal microdata from the China Family Panel Studies (2010-2022) with city-level climate and economic indicators. Gender-specific probit models assess how environmental stress, local labor markets, and household characteristics shape women’s migration. Droughts, heatwaves, and floods act as push factors, and urban economic opportunities as pull factors, with marked heterogeneity across regions and groups. The response to climate stress is itself gendered: Education enables women to move, whereas the burden of elderly care holds them in place.
