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Born as a facilitating group in support of the peace movement in West Bengal, the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group is now known as the Calcutta Research Group (CRG). The Third Joint Conference of the Pakistan-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy (1996), an unprecedented four-day public gathering of 400 peace activists of the sub-continent in Calcutta, marked the beginning of CRG. The founders were a group of researchers, trade unionists, feminist thinkers and women’s rights campaigners, academics, journalists, and lawyers. This was to be a forum for policy discussion and analysis on issues of democracy, human rights, peace, and justice.
Developing as a forum of mostly young public activists and socially committed researchers, CRG is now well-known for its research, dialogues, and advocacy work. It has carved out a niche for itself in the scholar-activist world for its policy studies on autonomy, human rights, women’s dignity, issues of forced displacement and migration, peace and conflict resolution, citizenship, borders and border-conflicts, and other themes relevant to democracy. The emphasis that CRG places on the East and the Northeast in its research and dialogues has now resulted in a strong network of scholars, activists, and institutions in the region.
Asia, with its multiple border regimes, colonial histories, contestations and conflicts, development trajectories, and displacement, is a rich and complex terrain where commodities, resources, ideas, and people are always on the move. As a key region of migrant origin, transit, and destination, Asia offers a varied and complex account of multiple mobilities
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Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group (CRG) is offering short term media fellowships to young photographers, journalists, short film makers and digital media practitioners for investigative studies on the following topics:
(a) The condition of women migrants and women from the families of migrant workers including victims of trafficking, due to climate change.
(b) Challenges faced by migrants living in the marginal areas particularly affected by climate disaster.
(c) Ensuring public health facilities among migrants in ecologically fragile areas.
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Refugee Watch, the biannual, peer-reviewed and refereed flagship journal of the Calcutta Research Group that offers a space for debate on refugees, forced migration, displacement, statelessness and related issues will be merging with its online co-publication, Refugee Watch Online, which primarily presents brief news, reports, views and comments pertaining to the human rights of the forcibly displaced. Refugee Watch and Refugee Watch Online will be operating from a common dedicated website shortly.
The Calcutta Research Group invites you to the Wednesday Lecture
Series on 8 June 2022 at 4 PM (IST) on “Universalism of the Oppressed: B.R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste”. The lecture will be delivered by
Professor Ranabir Samaddar, Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies, Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India.
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Special Issue on Contemporary Wars and Politics of Dispossession: Afghanistan and Ukraine
As a post-colonial society emerging from decades-long protracted conflicts,
Afghanistan confronts a complex legacy of past crimes and structural violence in addition to a complex web of mobilities. Communist rulers, Soviet occupiers, rural resistance fighters, Islamist parties, the Taleban movement, Pakistani volunteers, al-Qaeda members, power-seeking warlords, and the anti-Taliban coalition all contributed to the litany of abuse and turmoil since 1978. In the larger context of the continued subjection of the Middle East and North Africa to an extraordinary condensation of the old and new aspects of imperialism and neocolonialism, the pertinent effects of the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq endure in tandem with novel forms of international, external and regional interventions...Read
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Calcutta Research Group (CRG) is pleased to announce the Seventh Annual Research
and Orientation Workshop on Global Protection of
Refugees and Migrants (2022) to be organized in collaboration with the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, and a
number of universities and other educational institutions in India. The Workshop to be held in Kolkata, India, from 14 November to 19 November 2022 ...Read
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The Ukraine Question
The recent conflict in Ukraine raised several questions about the invasion, the initiatives toward the peace process and the rehabilitation of the displaced persons due to this conflict. Professor Ranabir Samaddar,
Distinguished chair in migration and forced migration studies, participated in panel discussions and interviews organised by CRG and different institutes and organisations. The critical analyses of the impact of the Ukraine war are available here. 2. As the West Goes to War, Crafting Peace Today, Calcutta Research Group 3 . The Contentious Nature on Peace: Ranabir Samaddar on War, Justice and Social Transformation |
Previous CRG Webinars, 2020...
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Archives of Audio and Video Resources ....
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Index of Living Archive on Covid-19 & Migrant Worker .... CLICK HERE
Late Krishna Bhattacharya was a founder member of Calcutta Research Group. Krishna Trust, set up in her memory, works for the education and health of women. CRG plans to collaborate more deeply and meaningfully with the activities of Krishna Trust. This will be an humble effort on the part of CRG towards providing service to our society. For details of Krishna Trust.
A Report on Researchers Proposal Presentation Workshop Date: 20.05.2021
For details CLICK HEREOne day workshop on 'The Migrant in the electoral time: a study of Bihar, Bengal and Assam, 2020-2021'; Date: 30th June 2021
For details CLICK HEREAnnual Planning Meeting : CRG’s Research and Orientation Programme in Migration and Forced Migration Studies on 26-27 January 2021
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