id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
aseas-2442	Lego, Jera	Making Refugees (Dis)Appear: Identifying Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Thailand and Malaysia	2018	16	.pdf	application/pdf	8232	378	49	Understanding the interplay between the state, the UNHCR, and NGOs in terms of varied rationalities serves to highlight: (1) the extent to which states, when focused on asserting their sovereign power, can disregard refugee norms, even as they inter- act and accommodate IOs and rights groups; (2) the importance of the UNHCR’s continued functioning; and (3) the crucial role that NGOs play in supporting forced migrants given the UNHCR’s tendency to homogenize refugee populations by vir- tue of its nature as a governmentalizing agent.7 It is hoped that the UNHCR, NGOs, and RCOs are continuously empowered, and that the state is socialized not just into adopting refugee norms but also away from an excessive focus on its sovereign sensi- bilities. Making Refugees (Dis)Appear This announcement by an RCO interestingly reveals the UNHCR’s governmen- tal compulsion to rationalize information on refugee populations, which in turn underpins a program for fixing these populations to particular places.	cache/aseas-2442.pdf	txt/aseas-2442.txt