This week’s New Pubs features Frydenlund and Dunn on Rohingya refugee workers in the USA; Chao on how “two Chinas” fractured Myanmar’s Cold War-era state building; and Bauer on late colonial era Shan Tsao-hpas as existing between political ethnicity and Shan nationalism.

See our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and for past weeks, and if anyone wants a PDF but is excluded by pay wall, please email us and we will help if we can.

Frydenlund, Shae and Elizabeth Cullen Dunn. “Violent Separations: Refugee Workers, Racial Capitalism, and the Production of Debility.” Antipode, 2026.

Chao, Chung-chi. “The Dragon on the White Elephant: Two “Chinas” Fracture Myanmar’s State-Building in the Cold War.” International Journal of China Studies 17.1 (2026): 135-142.

Bauer, Georg. “A Hybrid Generation: The Tsao-hpas of Late Colonial Burma between Political Ethnicity and Shan Nationalism.” ASEAS-Advances in Southeast Asian Studies 19.2 (2026).