Refugee Watch Catalogue (1998 - 2022)
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Editorial Note by Nergis Canefe & Nasreen Chowdhory
Essays
Methodological Quandaries of Studying Post-Soviet Displacements: An Invitation to Consider ‘Global Postcoloniality’ in Forced Migration Studies by Nergis Canef
Janus Faced Migration Policymaking: A Case Study of Afghan-European Migration Policy by Liza Schuster & Reza Hussaini
Higher Education Concerns for Young Afghan Refugees in Delhi by Anushka
The Necropolitics of Canada’s Afghan Resettlement Programmes by Kushan Azadah
Misogynist Norms and Women’s Resistance Movements in Afghanistan by Swagata Sarkhel
Understanding the Plight in Ukraine: How Humanitarian and Food Crises Impact International Security? by Anuja Saha & Subhranil Ghosh
Reports
As the West Goes to War, Crafting Peace Question Today by Marcello Musto, Paula Banerjee, Ranabir Samaddar, & Sandro Mezzadra
Ukraine War Refugees and Human Rights in a Global Context by Alex Aleinikoff, Ayşe Çağlar, Grażyna Baranowska, Olena Fedyuk, & Randall Hansen
Kolkata Declaration 2021: A Post-Colonial Engagement by Debasree Sarkar
Book Review
Arc of the Journeyman: A Humane Expedition to the Quotidian Lives of Afghan Migrants in England by Anshif Ali
Surviving War: Past, Present and Imagined Futures by Anup Shekhar Chakraborty
Essays
The Time of Becoming Resilient? Rohingya Women of Bangladesh Camps in Between Hopes and Waiting by Sucharita Sengupta
Enigma of ‘Brus’ in Mizoram: Displacement, Repatriation and Livelihood by V. Bijukumar
Refugee-Turned-Voters: Refugee Identity and Voting rights among Exiled Tibetan Community in Mcleodganj by Swati Condrolli
Study of Process, Determinants and Consequences of “Donkey” Migration from South Asia to Greece in Europe by Mohammed Taukeer
The Conceptualisation of State Linguistic Policies and Education System Analysing Community Solidarity: A Refugee Protectionism by Azeemah Saleem
Book Review
Book Review by Aparna Eswaran
Book Review by Rajat Kanti Sur
Essays
Geopolitical Framings of Subalterity in Education III: Context of Displacement by Ranu Basu
The Pandemic, Economic Recession, and the Indian Expatriates: Tiding over the Gloom in Indo-Gulf Relations by Shri Prakash Singh & Akshay Kumar Singh
Conflict-Induced Internal Displacement: A Case Study of Gujarat by Shubhra Seth
City as a Method by Ayşe Çağlar
Forced Displacement and Access to the Labour Market: The Case of Gaziantep by Doğuş Şimşek
Refugee Labour and the Politics of Care in Satellite Cities: The Case Study of Eskişehir, Turkey
by
Meriç Çağlar Chesley
Book Review
Book Review by Sukanya Bhattacharya
Book Review by Tamoha Majumdar
Essays
Public Health, Migrant Workers, and a Global Pandemic: Towards a New Politics of Life by Iman Kumar Mitra
Pandemics, Public Health, and Sanitation Workers in Mumbai: Crisis of Work and Life by Mouleshri Vyas & Manish K. Jha
Trust and Everyday Healthcare at a Resettlement Colony in Delhi by Ishita Dey
In Search of Other Worlds: The Dalit in De Facto Statelessness in Avinash Dolas’s “The Refugee” by Debojoy Chanda
In Search of Healing: Healthcare Inequities and Internal Migration in India by Deeksha
Conflict and Public Health Services in Suchetgarh, a Border Village of Jammu
Region
by
Marvi Slathia
A View from Turkey
Refugees and Migrants in Turkey: Differential Status and Access to Healthcare by Gonca Savas Dogan
Report
A Panel Discussion on Itinerant Situations in Art and Literature: A Report by Samata Biswas
Book Review
Book Review by Anup Shekhar Chakraborty
Essays
The Politics of Humanitarianism: Some Considerations by Shibashis Chatterjeey
Questions of Ethics, Pandemic and the Migrant Worker by Paula Banerjee
Pandemic, Protection and Politics of Mobility by Nasreen Chowdhory
Wounded Identities: Untold Stories of the Wasteland by Roli Misra and Nidhi Tewari
Undocumented Immigrants in Assam: Understanding the Jurisprudence in Past, Present and Future by Anjuman Ara Begum
Night Shelters for Homeless Population in Visakhapatnam, India: Understanding the Functions and Facilities by M Abraham and S Narayana Swamy
How Protected are the Refugees: A Comparative Study of the Contemporary States of Germany and India in Light of the Geneva Convention, 1951 by Kusumika Ghosh
Review Essay
Exploring Differential Inclusion and Exclusion in Migration Studies: Definitions, Theories and Evidence from the Field by Reha Atakan Cetin
Book Review
Book Review by Samata Biswas
From the Editor’s Desk by Paula Banerjee
Special Issue on SANDD
South Asia Network for Displacement and Development (SANDD) by Liza Schuster & Saqib Jafarey
A Social Mapping of Displacement in India by Shatabdi Das
Climate Change and Migration: Dialogues with Community Stakeholders in Skardu, Gilgit-Baltistan by Noor Sanauddin
IDPs in Afghanistan: Some Reflections by Reza Hussaini
Mapping Vulnerabilities in Bangladesh: An Indicative Report Based on Household Surveys and Stakeholders’ Dialogues by Ruhi Naz
Report on a Webinar
Covid-19 in South Asia: Regional Perspectives on Vulnerabilities and Dispossession by Sukanya Bhattacharya
Regular Features
Essays
Colonialism, Resource Crisis and Forced Migration by Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty
At the Threshold of Dreadful Delight: Migrant Male Sex-Workers and Transgressive Sexuality in Caleb Carr’s The Alienist by Preeshita Biswas
Reflection
Calcutta: Migrant City by Samata Biswas
Book Review by Himadri Chatterjee
The Global Compact of Refugees: A Viewpoint of Global South by Nasreen Chowdhory & Shamna Thacham Poyil
Laws of Asylum and Protection: The Indian Experience in a South Asian Context by Simon Behrman
The Imagined Terrain: Return, Citizenship and Justice in the Eyes of Rohingya Refugee Women by Meghna Guhathakurta
Labour in Borderland: Ichhamati River in North 24 Parganas by Shatabdi Das
Neo-liberalism, Migration, and the Rise of Populism in the Contemporary World by Ravi Arvind Palat
Reflections on Auto-Ethnography
Memories of the Forgotten by Ranabir Samaddar
Food Security and Forced Migration: An Overview by Santi Sarkar
Discursive Bias towards Skilled Migration in Brazil during the Workers Party Administrations: Influence of the Knowledge-Based Economy Paradigm? by Janaina Galvão & Roberto Uebel
The Idea of Protection: Norms and Practice of Refugee Management in India by Nasreen Chowdhory, Shamna T.P & Meghna Kajla
Cultural Identity in Exile: Challenges Faced by Tibetan Refugees in India by Nilofer
Caring for the ‘Evacuees’ and ‘Destitutes’? Governmentality of Migration in Late Colonial Calcutta by Aditi Mukherjee
Partition and Gender in the East Refugee Women of Bengal by Sutapa Bhattacharya
Challenges of Sustainable Livelihood for Migrants in the Raniganj Coalfield by Shatabdi Das
Rohingyas: The Emergence of a Stateless Population by Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury & Ranabir Samaddar
Rohingya Refugee Crisis and Ethno-Religious Conflict in South EastAsia: From Burma to Bangladesh and Back by Nergis Canefe
‘Moving Out’ and the Social Imaginaries at play: Construing the trends in Migrations in Darjeeling Hills and Plains (2005-2015) by Anup Shekhar Chakraborty
Strangers in our ‘Zo Jerusalem’: Xenophobia and the Cultural Subjects in Northeast India by Lallian Thangsing
Re-examining Typologies in Environmental Change and Population Displacement: Need for Contextual Understanding by Bidhan Kanti Das
Climate Change Adaptation Actions in Bangladesh: A Critical Review by Sanjoy Biswas & Tahmina Sanzida Shahid
The SEZ Policy and National Policy for Relocation and Rehabilitation 2007 (NPRR): Debate in India-Its critique by Jasmine Y. Damle
Commentary
Past Conflicts and the ‘Refugeeization’ of the Rohingya People: A Reappraisal by Rachel D’ Silva & Sudeep Basu
Exploring the Environment and Migration Nexus in the Brahmaputra Valley by Murchana Roychoudhury
Book Review by Samata Biswas
Borders of Labour and Refugee Economies by Ranabir Samaddar
Freedom under Control: Jurisdiction, Human Rights, and “Freedom of the Sea” by Tommaso Manfredini
Remaking Caste and Work: Calcutta Municipal Methars and Their Strikes in 1928 by Tanika Sarkar
Criminalizing the Migrant: Street Carriers and the Colonial State in 19th-20th Century Calcutta and Bengal by Somdatta Chakraborty
The Small Town in India: ‘Subaltern and Beyond by Ritam Sengupta
A Colonial, Modern and Urban Interface: Jaffa and the Politics of Exclusion by Priya Singh
Commentary : Need of a Gender Centric Approach under Resettlement Policy by Gargi Sengupta
Book Review by Samata Biswas
The Flipside of the Integration Question: Guest Worker Regimes and Temporary Circular/Managed Migration in History by Mahua Sarkar
On the Creation and Accommodation of the Misery of the World: The Case of the Sans-Papiers by Simon Behrman
The Marginal Refugee in the ‘Migrant Crisis’: Crisis, Othering and Border Walls in Mainstream Western Media Discourse by Manish Jha & M. Ibrahim Wani
The Migrant as a Political Object: “Guests” in Turkey, EU Debates and the Middle Eastern Conundrum by Anita Sengupta
The Shifting Logics of Reorganisation: Defining Identities and their Borders in Colonial Sylhet by Debarati Bagchi
Changes in Border Policy and Border Identities: Post LBA Transitions in the Former Bangladeshi Enclaves in Cooch Behar, India by Anuradha Sen Mookerjee
Book Review by Pamela Philipose
Issue No. 48 December 2016 for View CLICK HERE
Introduction: Syrians are Coming? Reframing the Syrian Refugee Crisis by Nergis Canefe
Politics and Policy: Syrian Refugees and the European Union by Priya Singh
Guests to Neighbours: The Difficulty of Naming Syrians in Turkey by Pınar Uyan Semerci &Emre Erdoğan
The Politics of Mobility on Lesvos, Greece: A Critical Scholarly View from The Beach, The Camp, and The City by Kathryn E. T. Dennler
Syrian Refugees’ Reception in Southern Europe: The Shifting Content of the Right to Asylum in Lesvos, Sicily and Melilla by Chiara Denaro
Performing the Migration by Belma Kurtişoğlu, Selda Öztürk & Hussain Hajj
Migration as a Necessity: Contextualising the European Response to the Syrian Exodus by Nergis Canefe
Commentary on Canada’s Reception of Syrian Refugees by Howard Adelman
Book Review by Meghna Guhathakurta
Issue No. 47 June 2016 for View CLICK HERE
Editorial: On Gender, Development, and Resistance in South Asia by Tiina Seppälä
Resisting Borders: Mobilities, Gender, and Bodies Crossing the Mediterranean by Anitta Kynsilehto
Gender, Development Induced Displacement, and Resistance: Women Uprooted by River Erosion in West Bengal and Bangladesh by Sreya Sen
This Place is not ours: Stateless Women and the Right to Citizenship in Nepal by Roopshree Joshi
Interrogating Political Society through Displacement and Vulnerability Risks through Comparative Case Studies in India by Nanda Kishor M S
Special Article
Brus (Reangs) in Mizoram: The Unresolved Crises
by
Shyamalendu Mazumdar
Issue No. 46 December 2015 for View CLICK HERE
A Lost Population? East
India Company and Arkanese ‘Refugees’ in Chittagong by
Anandaroop Sen
Becoming
‘Local’: Muslims and the Politics of the ‘Local’ and the ‘Non-local’ in
Darjeeling Hills by
Anup Shekhar
Chakraborty
Partitions
and the Sisyphean Making of Peoples by
A. Dirk Moses
The
Precarious Migrant: Issues of Ecology, Politics, and Survival by
Ranabir Samaddar
Pluralisms of Law: India’s Place
in the International Refugee Protection Regime by
Jessica De
Shanti
Book Review
by Snehashish
Mitra
Issue No. 45 June 2015 for View CLICK HERE
Introduction by Anita Sengupta
Post-Colonial State and Violence: Rethinking the Middle East and North Africa outside the Blindfold of Area Studies by Nergis Canefe
A Syrian Exodus: The Case of Lebanon and Jordan by Priya Singh
‘Putting the Local Back in Uyghur History’: The Uyghur and Dungan Migrants of Central Asia by Suchandana Chatterjee
Returnees in Afghanistan: Impediments to Reintegration by Arpita Basu Roy
Marginality and Migration: The Plight of Persecuted Religious Minorities of Afghanistan by Anwesha Ghosh
International Workshop on ‘Gender, Development, Resistance’, 7 to 8 June 2015, University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland: A Report -Report-I Research Workshop on ‘Rohingyas in India: Birth of a Stateless Community’, August 13-14, 2015, Darjeeling: A Report - Report-II
Book Review by Sreya Sen
Issue No. 43 & 44 June & December 2014 for View CLICK HERE
Accessing Refuge: India and its 1971 Refugee “Problem” by Peter Grbac
The Plight of Dwelling: East-Bengali Refugees and the Struggle for Land in Kolkata by Annemiek Prins
Legal Brief on Statelessness Law in the Indian Context by Charlotte-Anne Malischewski
Reducing Statelessness: A New Call for India by Suvro Prosun Sarker
Women in Post-Conflict Nepal: Engendering the Issues of Women IDPs in National Regimes by Gitta Shrestha
In an Enclave Existence: Israel’s Palestinians by Priya Singh
India-Bangladesh Cross Border Migration: A Human Rights Discourse by Vikash Kumar
Report on ‘Gender, Empowerment and Conflict: A Conference on South Asia’ -Report-I
A Report on a one day Workshop on ‘Bengal-Bangladesh Border: Humanitarian Issues’ -Report-II
Book Review by Kaustubh Mani Sengupta
Issue No. 42 December 2013 for View CLICK HERE
Marginalization and
Exclusion: Politics of Non-citizen Rights in Postcolonial South Asia by
Nasreen
Chowdhory
Reality of
Protection: Case of Urban Refugees Residing in Nepal by
Laxman Lamichhane
Methodological good fit; Limitations of Quantitative Methods in Forced
Migration Studies by
Mohamed Munas
Right to
Return: The Tibetan and Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal by
Amrita Limbu
Borders and
Movements: People in the Borderlands of Central Asia by
Anita Sengupta
Tibetans in
India and Citizenship Rights: The Legal Battle by
Shuvro Prosun Sarker
Reflections
on the Decade of Forced Migration Studies-Report
Book Review by
Samata Biswas
Issue No. 41 June 2013 for View CLICK HERE
Proliferation of
Borders and the Right to Escape by
Sandro Mezzadra
IDP
resettlement policies in post conflict Sri Lanka: Assessing the
evidence-based context of the resettlement process with particular emphasis
on IDP participation by
Fathima Azmiya
Badurdeen
The
East Bengali Muslims in Assam and Rohingyas of Myanmar: Comparative
Perspectives of Migration, Exclusion, Statelessness by
Subir
Bhaumik
Bastuhara,
the Dispossessed by
Nishi Pulugurtha
The Ethics
of Recognition: Bearing Witness to Human Rights’ Violations in Australian
Detention Centre Narratives by
Maheyrin Chowdhury
A Report
on the 14th Conference of the International Association for the
Study of Forced Migration (IASFM 14) by Report
Book Review
by
Sarvani Gooptu
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