The Right to Higher Education: Refugees’ Access to University in Malaysia

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Refugee learners in Malaysia find education difficult to reach. According to UNHCR Malaysia, only 27% of refugees between the age of 14–17 are currently studying, which is three times lower than Malaysia’s secondary school enrolment rate. Against the backdrop of finite opportunities, they live in precarity, constantly vulnerable to arbitrary abuse, arrest, and detention by […]

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/ba∙ca/ with New Naratif: Environmental Migration in Kalimantan

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/ba∙ca/ with New Naratif is a reading group series that invites members to come together to discuss selected stories published by New Naratif. Mass migration and environmental factors are deeply intertwined – but where migration once drove environmental changes in Indonesia, the reverse is happening today. How is this phenomenon linked to historical factors stretching […]

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Democracy Classroom: The Human Story and Kalimantan’s Environmental Migration

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New Naratif's Democracy Classrooms are a safe space where our community can come together, articulate our thoughts, and practice democracy. After experiencing 150 years of environmental degradation caused by migration, the indigenous people of Kalimantan are now the ones being forced to migrate. This is a warning from Kalimantan for us to reverse our fundamental assumptions […]

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/ba.ca/ with New Naratif: Lost Childhood – Children in Malaysia’s Immigration Detention Centres

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According to figures from the Home Ministry of Malaysia, there are 1,030 children currently held across 20 immigration detention centres in Malaysia. 43% of them are girls and a third of them reported to be lone sojourners, unaccompanied or separated minors without their guardians. Undocumented children in Malaysia are seen as violators of Malaysia’s immigration […]

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