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Gerhard: We're here with Rick Towel, the UNHCR representative in Malaysia. I guess, one of the first questions is: can you outline to us what the UNHCR does in Malaysia, in a country like Malaysia that is not a signatory to the UN Convention on Refugees or its protocol? Rick: Well, unlike many other parts of the world where governments—when we take responsibility for protecting refugees, here it's the opposite. There are no laws in place to protect refugees. Anybody who needs refugee protection who comes here is seen as an illegal migrant. UNHCR is the default. We step in and provide whatever kind of protection we're able to do in an environment which is not conducive to recognizing the legal status of refugees here. Gerhard: As you say, refugees aren't recognized. What can the UNHCR do to help create some kind of protection space, as a first protection space for many of these people arriving from further afield? Rick: Well, the first thing we have to do is try to find and identify who they are. We have a tacit agreement with the government that if we register people and give them identity cards, then that will provide some immunity from expulsion and from arbitrary arrests, which the rest of the illegal migration population is prone to. Many employees recognize these cards as having some value. A lot of people use the card as a form of identification, which gets them access to the healthcare system in some ways and also to the employment market. The registration with UNHCR doesn't provide a full range of protections in the way that we would like or in the way that you might find in other places, but it does certainly raise them out of the pool of people who are determined to be illegal migrants in the country and who live a very, very tough hand-to-mouth existence. Gerhard: I guess, you just raised a really important point. When we talk about refugees, often people think about the refugee camp, which is a confined space where services can be provided in that confined space. One of the challenges here is you have to find them, and they have to find you in and then find services, and you have to provide some services to a population that's scattered around Kuala Lumpur and around the whole country. What kind of challenges does UNHCR face in that regard? Rick: Well, it provides challenges and opportunities. The challenges are how do you find 150,000 people living in largely an urban environment? But the opportunities are—for self-reliance and self-help are enormous. Refugee camps tend to be places of huge dependency, where aid is dispensed and imposed with no huge degree of autonomy and self-independence of people. Unlike that in an urban environment, people are, on the downside, left to fend for themselves, but when people do fend for themselves, they tend to be amazingly creative and ingenious in survival and basic livelihood techniques. Our job in an environment such as this is to empower and capacitance people to help them survive, to help...
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