Sixth Annual Research & Orientation Workshop
on
Global Protection of Migrants and Refugees

Kolkata, 15-20 November 2021

Reading Lists

 

Module A /  Module B /  Module C /  Module D /  Module E / Module F

Module A

Module A: Protection and Punishment (race, caste, and policing)

Coordinator: Nasreen Chowdhory, Delhi University, Delhi & CRG

 

1. Betts, Alexander, Gil Loescher and James Milner, eds. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR): The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection. Routledge, 2011.

2. Bittle, Steven. “When protection is punishment: Neoliberalism and secure care approaches to youth prostitution.” Canadian Journal of Criminology 44, no. 3 (July 2002): 317-50.

3. Brumat, Leiza and Luisa Feline Freier. “South American De Jure and De Facto Refugee Protection: Lessons From The South.” In The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum in light of the United Nations Global Compact on Refugees: International Experiences on Containment and Mobility and their Impacts on Trust and Rights, edited by Sergio Carrera and Andrew Geddes, 134-43. European University Institute, 2021.

4. Crock, Mary, ed. Protection or Punishment: The Detention of Asylum Seekers in Australia. Sydney: Federation Press, 1993.

5. Cynthia, Hardy. “Refugee Determination: Power and Resistance in Systems of Foucauldian Power.” Administration and Society 35, no. 4 (2003): 462-88.

6. Driver, Felix. “Bodies in Space: Foucault’s Account of Disciplinary Power.” In Reassessing Foucault: Power, Medicine and the Body, edited by Colin Jones and Roy Porter. London: Routledge, 1994.

7. Egelman, Zoe. “Punishment and Protection, Two Sides of the Same Sword: The Problem of International Criminal Law Under the Refugee Convention.” Harvard International Law Journal 59, no. 2 (Summer 2018): 461-99.

8. Feller, Erika. “Asylum, Migration and Refugee Protection: Realities, Myths and the Promise of Things to Come.” International Journal of Refugee Law 18, no. 3-4, (September/December 2006): 509–36.

9. Fitzpatrick, Joan. “Temporary Protection of Refugees: Elements of a Formalized Regime.” The American Journal of International Law 94, no. 2 (April 2000): 279-306.

10. Fortin, Antonio. “The Meaning of ‘Protection’ in the Refugee Definition.” International Journal of Refugee Law 12, no. 4 (October 2000): 548-76.

11. Garelli, Glenda. “Protection Displaced: The Racialization and Counter-Conduct of Vulnerability for Libyan War Refugees in Italy.” Materiali Foucaultiani 1, no. 2 (2012): 69-82

12. Goodwin-Gill, Guy S. “Refugees: Challenges to Protection.” International Migration Review 35, no. 1 (2001): 130-42

13. Goodwin-Gill, Guy S. “Refugees and Responsibility in the Twenty-First Century: More Lessons Learned from the South Pacific.” Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal 12, no. 1 (January 2003): 23-47 .

14. Guild, Elspeth. “Between Persecution and Protection: Refugees and the New European Asylum Policy.” Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 3 (2000): 169-97.

15. Helton, Arthur C. “What Is Refugee Protection? A Question Revisited.” In Problems of Protection: The UNHCR, Refugees, and Human Rights, edited by Niklaus Steiner, Mark Gibney and Gil Loescher. New York: Routledge, 2013.

16. Ilcan, Suzan, Kim Rygiel, and Feyzi Baban. “The ambiguous architecture of precarity: temporary protection, everyday living and migrant journeys of Syrian refugees.” International Journal of Migration and Border Studies 4, no. 1-2 (2018).

17. Lakraa, Hayette. “Im/Mobility, Power, and In/Visible Refugees.” Postcolonial Text 12, no. 3 and 4 (2017).

18. Leach, Michael, and Fethi Mansouri. Lives in Limbo: Voices of Refugees under Temporary Protection. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2004

19. Lister, Matthew J. “The Place of Persecution and Non-State Action in Refugee Protection.” In The Ethics and Politics of Immigration: Core Issues and Emerging Trends, edited by Alex Sager. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.

20. Nathwani, Niraj. “The Purpose of Asylum.” International Journal of Refugee Law 12, no. 3 (July 2000): 354–79.

21. Nettelbeck, Amanda. “‘A Halo of Protection’: Colonial Protectors and the Principle of Aboriginal Protection through Punishment.” Australian Historical Studies 43, no. 3 (2012): 396-411.

22. McAdam, Jane. “The Concept of ‘International Protection’ in the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 23, no. 2 (2021): 191-206.

23. Morris, Julia. “The Value of Refugees: UNHCR and the Growth of the Global Refugee Industry.” Journal of Refugee Studies (January 2021).

24. Pickering, S. “Crimes of the State: The Persecution and Protection of Refugees.” Crit Crim 13 (January 2005): 141-63

25. Pickering, S.J. “The New Criminals: Refugees and Asylum Seekers.” In The Critical Criminology Companion, edited by Thalia Anthony and Chris Cunneen, 169-79. Sydney: Hawkins Press, 2008. 

26. Pittaway, Eileen. “The Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh: A Failure of the International Protection Regime.” In Protracted Displacement in Asia: No Place to Call Home, edited by Howard Adelman. Routledge, 2017.

27. Puumala, Eeva. “Bodies out of line? Corporealities of Border Practicing and the Politics of Refugee Protection.” Refugee Watch 35 (June 2010): 73-85.

28. Spierenburg, Pieter. “Punishment, Power, and History: Foucault and Elias.” Social Science History 28, no. 4 (Winter, 2004): 607-36.

29. Steiner, Niklaus, Mark Gibney and Gil Loescher, eds. Problems of Protection: The UNHCR, Refugees, and Human Rights. New York: Routledge, 2013.

30. Vogl, Anthea. “Protection, crime, and punishment: regulation at the nexus of crimmigration and refugee law.” In Research Handbook on the Law and Politics of Migration, edited by Catherine Dauvergne, 279-92. 2021.

31. Vogl, Anthea. “Crimmigration and Refugees: Bridging Visas, Criminal Cancellations and ‘Living in the Community’ as Punishment and Deterrence.” In Crimmigration in Australia, edited by Peter Billings, 149-71. Singapore: Springer, 2019

32. Welander, Marta. “Guilt through Punishment: Border Spectacles, State Violence and Public Attitudes towards Refugees and Displaced People.” March 1, 2018.

 

 

 

Module B

 

Module B: Migrant workers and the refugee: complicated terrains of welfare and asymmetric social protection

Coordinator: Manish K. Jha, TISS, Mumbai & CRG and Mouleshri Vyas, TISS, Mumbai & CRG

 

 

1.   "Action Aid Association (India). “Workers in the time of COVID-19: Round 1 of the National Study on Informal Workers.” August, 2020

2.   Arnold, Dennis, and Joseph R. Bongiovi. “Precarious, Informalizing and Flexible Work: Transforming Concepts and Understandings.” American Behavioral Scientist 20, no. 10 (2012): 1-20

3.   ‘Centre for Equity Studies. “Labouring Lives: Hunger Precarity and Despair Amid Lockdown.” June 2020'

4.   Chamie, Joseph. “International Migration amid a World in Crisis.” Journal of Migration and Human Security 8, no. 3 (2020): 23-245.

5.   Dasgupta, Monica. “Public Health in India: Dangerous Neglect.” Economic and Political Weekly 40, no. 49 (2005): 51-59.

6.    Duggal, Ravi. “Mumbai’s Struggles with Public Health Crises, From Plague to Covid- 19.” Economic and Political Weekly 55, no. 21 (2020): 17-20

7.    Hans, Asha, Kalpana Kannabiran, Manoranjan Mohanty, and Pushpendra, eds. Migration, Workers, And Fundamental Freedoms: Pandemic Vulnerabilities and States of Exception in India. New York: Routledge, 2021.

8.    Hennebry, J. “Falling through the cracks? Migrant workers and the Global Social Protection Floor.” Global Social Policy 14, no. 3 (2014):369-88

9.    Jayaram, Nivedita and Divya Verma. “Examining the ‘Labour’ in Labour Migration: Migrant Workers’ Informal Work Arrangements and Access to Labour Rights in Urban Sectors.” The Indian Journal of Labour Economics 63 (2020): 999-1019.

10.  Jha, Manish K. “‘Stateless’ Rohingyas: persecution, displacement and complex community development.” Community Development Journal (October 2020)  

11.   Samaddar, Ranabir, ed. Borders of an Epidemic: COVID-19 and Migrant Workers. Kolkata: Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, 2020 .

12.  Samaddar, Ranabir, ed. Burdens of an Epidemic: A Policy perspective on COVID-19 and Migrant Workers. Kolkata: Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, 2020.

13.  Sarkar, Aditya. “The Tie That Snapped: Bubonic Plague and Mill Labour in Bombay, 1896–1898.” International Review of Social History 59, no. 2 (2014): 181–214.

14.  Sengupta, Sohini, and Manish K. Jha. “Social Policy, COVID-19 and Impoverished Migrants: Challenges and Prospects in Locked Down India.” The International Journal of Community and Social Development 2, no. 2 (2020): 152–72.

15.  Shah, A., and Jens Lerche. “Migration and the invisible economies of care: Production, social reproduction and seasonal migrant labour in India.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 45, no. 4 (2020): 719-34.

16.  Srivastava, Ravi. “Growing Precarity, Circular Migration and the Lockdown in India.” The Indian Journal of Labour Economics 63 (2020): 79–86.

17.   Vyas, Mouleshri, and Manish K. Jha. “Pandemics, Public Health, and Sanitation Workers in Mumbai: Crisis of Work and Life.” Refugee Watch 57 (2021): 14-33.

Online Platform

18.   https://www.health-check.in/covid-19/lockdown-migrant-worker-healthcare-vaccination-employment-second-wave-758591?fbclid=IwAR189rHWQJ9muGF35-Q934hQ36B3qwFVTVUfpT-0e6BQa3Ewqj5Ezu-S6gI

19.   https://idronline.org/features/inequality/who-is-looking-out-for-migrant-workers-during-the-covid-19-crisis/?fbclid=IwAR0X5hsElCjYApqqljXT0eu2R5_L2Cmr2n7zjSGgnBRQtc_IhzpK9aRZ_Qw

20.   https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/amidst-covid-19-crisis-high-risk-rohingya-refugees-hyderabad-live-fear-150486?fbclid=IwAR1_QjCAm4j41sQE-NCmwuxQ5X_Q0PyvYH-HXxZIB5QQ3vVJbucUiwTNyRM

21.   https://thewire.in/health/rohingya-refugees-delhi-covid-vaccine

22.   https://www.health-check.in/covid-19/why-india-needs-to-vaccinate-undocumented-immigrants-refugees-746513?fbclid=IwAR17H8OTyMgbqucwUdXaudiGG5c8Z-ZpcwtOUZ0wbuP_6AaTzkAxWJLEdOs

 

 

 

Module C

 

Module C: Refugees and migrants as subjects of economics, politics, and gender division

Coordinator: Ranabir Samaddar, CRG and Arup Sen, Serampore College, Kolkata & CRG.

 

1. Agier, Michel. Managing the Undesirables: Refugee camps and Humanitarian Government. London: Polity Press, 2011

2. Arendt, Hannah. “We Refugees.” In Altogether Elsewhere: Writers on Exile, edited by Marc Robinson, 110-19. London: Faber and Faber, 1994

3. Banerjee, Paula. “Ports and Crime.” In Logistical Asia: The Labour of Making a World Region, edited by Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter and Ranabir Samaddar, 69-90. Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018

4. Barnes, Tom. Making Cars in the New India: Industry, Precarity and Informality. Cambridge University Press, 2018

5. Betts, Alex, Louise Bloom, Josiah Kaplan, and Naohiko Omata. Refugee Economies: Forced Displacement and Development. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017

6. Calcutta Research Group. “COVID 19 amd Migrant Workers.” Accessed July 15, 2021.

7. Castles, Stephen. “Migration.” In A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, edited by David Theo Goldberg and John Solomos, 561-79. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002.

8. Castles, Stephen, and Mark J. Miller. The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World. Hampshire, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003.

9. Chambers, Thomas. Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans. UCL Press, 2020.

10. Chimni, B.S. “The Birth of a ‘Discipline’ - From Refugee to Forced Migration Studies.” Journal of Refugee Studies 22, no. 1 (2009): 11-29.

11. Erickson, Jennifer Lynn. ““Citizenship, Refugees, and the State: Bosnians, Southern Sudanese, and Social Service Organisations in Fargo, North Dakota.” PhD diss., Department of Anthropology, Graduate School of the University of Oregon, 2010.

12. Evans, Brad, and Julian Reid. Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously. London: Polity Press, 2014.

13. Forced Migration Review. “Economies: Rights and Access to Work.” June 2018.

14. Gatrell, Peter. The Making of the Modern Refugee. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

15. Hosken, Andrew. “Syrian child refugees 'being exploited in Jordan.'” BBC News, November 4, 2015.

16. McGuiness, Margaret E. “Legal and Normative Dimensions of the Manipulation of Refugees.” In Refugee Manipulation: War, Politics, and Borders of Labour and Refugee Economies, edited by Stephen John Stedman and Fred Tanner, 135-66. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2003.

17. Mezzadra, Sandro, and Brett Neilson. Border as Method, or the Multiplication of Labour. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013.

18. Phillips, Kristine. “Thousands of ICE Detainees Claim They were Forced into Labor, a Violation of Anti-slavery Laws.” The Washington Post, March 6, 2017.

19. ReliefWeb. “In Search of Protection and Livelihoods: Socio-economic and Environmental Impacts of Dadaab Refugee Camps on Host Communities.” September 2010.

20. Samaddar, Ranabir. The Postcolonial Age of Migration. London and New York: Routledge, 2020.

21. Samaddar, Ranabir. A Pandemic and the Politics of Life. Delhi: Women Unlimited, 2021.

22. Taylor, Edward J., Mateusz J. Filipski, Mohamed Alloush, Anubhab Gupta, Ruben Irvin Rojas Valdes, and Ernesto Gonzalez-Estrada. “Economic Impact of Refugees”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113 no. 27 (July 2016): 7449-53.

23. The Migration Observatory. “Mixed Migration: Policy Challenges.” March 29, 2011.

24. Tometten, Christophe. “Judicial Response to Mixed and Massive Population Flows.” Refugee Watch 39 & 40 (June & December, 2012): 125-40

25. UN General Assembly. “In safety and dignity: addressing large movements of refugees and migrants.” April 21, 2016

26. UNHCR. “Refugee Protection and Mixed Migration: A 10-Point Plan of Action.” January, 2007.

27. Zetter, Roger. “Are refugees an economic burden or benefit?” Forced Migration Review 41 (December 2012): 50-52.

 

 

 

 

 

Module D

 

Module D: Forced Migration, law and critical jurisprudence

Coordinator: Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, CRG & Rabindra Bharati University

 

 

1.   Anker, Deborah E. “Refugee Law, Gender and the Human Rights Paradigm.” Harvard Human Rights Journal 15 (2002): 133-54

2.   Chaudhury, Sabyasachi Basu Ray. “Dispossession, Un-freedom, Precarity: Negotiating Citizenship Laws in Postcolonial South Asia.” South Atlantic Quarterly 120, no. 1 (2021): 209-19

3.   Chaudhury, Sabyasachi Basu Ray, and Ranabir Samaddar, eds. The Rohingya in South Asia: People without A State. Routledge, 2018

4.   Chimni, B. S., ed. International Refugee Law: A Reader. New Delhi: Sage, 2000

5.   Chimni, B. S. “Status of Refugees in India: Strategic Ambiguity.” In Refugees and the State: Practices of Asylum and Care in India, 1947–2000, edited by Ranabir Samaddar. New Delhi: Sage, 2003

6.   Grahl-Madsen, Atle. “Refugees and Refugee Law in a World in Transition.” Michigan Journal of International Law 3, no. 1 (1982): 65-88.

7.  Samaddar, Ranabir. “Forced migration situations as exceptions in history?” International Journal of Migration and Border Studies 2, no. 2 (2016): 99-118

 

 

 

 

Module E

 

Module E: Derogation of rights of refugees and migrants, and situations of statelessness

Coordinator: Parivelan K. M., TISS, Mumbai & CRG

 

 

1. Ahuja, V.K., ed. Human Rights: Contemporary Issues. Eastern Book Company, 2019

2. Majumder, Suchismita, Priyanca Mathur Velath, Kriti Chopra, and Madhura Chakraborty. “Rohingyas in India: Birth of a Stateless Community.” Policies and Practices 71 (September 2015).

3. National Women Commission and Forum for Women, Law and Development. “Analysis of Nepalese Citizenship Laws from a Gender Perspective.” February 2014

4. UNHCR. “Handbook on Protection of Stateless Persons: Under the 1954 Convention Relating To The Status of Stateless Persons.” 2014.

5. UNHCR. “Resolving Existing Major Situations of Statelessness: Good Practices Paper: Action I.” February 23, 2015

6. UNHCR. “Ending Statelessness Within 10 Years: A Special Report.” (n.d.).

 

 

 

 

 

Module F

 

Module F: Protection Ethics and Practices of Care and Solidarity

Coordinators: Samir Kumar Das, University of Calcutta & CRG

 

1. Bourdieu, Pierre. The Logic of Practice. Translated by Richard Nice. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1997

2. Dey, Ishita. “‘Trust’, Sociality and Pandemic.” Society and Culture in South Asia 7, no. 1 (2021): 11-15.

3. Durkheim, Emile. The Division of Labour in Society. Translated by W. D. Halls. New York: The Free Press, 1984

4. Esposito, Roberto. Immunitas: The Protection and Negation of Life. London: Polity, 2011.

5. Malthus, Thomas. An Essay on the Principle of Population as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Goodwin, M. Condorcet and Other Writers. London, 1998.

6. Samaddar, Ranabir. A Pandemic and the Politics of Life. New Delhi: Women Unlimited, 2021

 

 

Module F: On Ethical Considerations for Research

 

1. Several reference documents related to ethical considerations for research with people in forced migration-All 20 translations are available on the CARFMS website (with thanks to Michele Millard)

2. Ethical Considerations in Research with People in Situations of Forced Migration (English)     (French)

3. IASFM website has the international code of ethics in English, French and Spanish