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aseas-7687	Abd Jalil, Aslam; Hoffstaedter, Gerhard	The Effects of COVID-19 on Refugees in Peninsular Malaysia: Surveillance, Securitization, and Eviction	2023	21	.pdf	application/pdf	10138	603	53	One example was a media report that stated local residents believed that Rohingya refugees were unhygienic, brought crime and drugs to the neighborhood, and posed unfair competition to the job markets. However, unlike neighboring countries like Singapore, where migrant workers were confined to their workplaces, refugees in Malaysia are much more spread out and not easily confined to specific locations, except for those who have been detained in immigration detention.1 This became a national issue for Rohingya refugees because an early COVID cluster was detected as part of an Islamic missionary group Tablighi Jamaat mass gathering, which many Rohingya from across peninsular Malaysia had attended.2 The gather- ing at Sri Petaling Mosque in Kuala Lumpur from 27 February until 1 March 2020 involved 16,000 attendees comprising Malaysians, visitors from 27 countries, as well as migrants and refugees residing in Malaysia, and quickly became the country’s larg- est COVID-19 infection cluster (Malaysiakini, 2020).	cache/aseas-7687.pdf	txt/aseas-7687.txt