RESEARCH AND ORIENTATION WORKSHOP ON FORCED MIGRATION
Winter Course on Forced Migration, 2004
Course Readings
MODULE A
Nationalism, ethnicity, racism, and xenophobia
Book
- Refugee & The State : Ed. Ranabir Samaddar
- State Response to Refugee Crisis / Samir Kumar Das
- Birth of Social Security Commitments : What Happened in the West / Ritu Menon
- Aliens in a Colonial World / Paula Banerjee
Photocopies
- “The Nation’s Two Subjects” (from Biography of the Indian Nation: 1947-1997) / Ranabir Samaddar
- “War and Territory in South Asia” / Itty Abraham
- “Partition – Memory Begins Where History Ends” (from, Ranabir Samaddar, ed., Reflections of Partition in the East) / Pradip Kr. Bose
Web-based
RW.: Displacing the People the Nation Marches Ahead in Sri Lanka
http://www.safhr.org/refugee_watch15_7.htm
RW.: Mohajirs : The Refugees By Choice
http://www.safhr.org/refugee_watch14_5.htm
MODULE B
Gendered nature of forced migration, vulnerability, and justice
Book
- Refugee & The State : Ed. Ranabir Samaddar
Refugee Women and Children In India / Asha Hans - International Refugee Law : A Reader : Ed. B.S. Chimni
Social Group : Gender, Pgs. 34-50
Guidelines on Protection of Refugee Women, Pgs. 190-192
Photocopies
- UNHCR : Guidelines on International Protection : Gender Related Persecution
- South Asian Refugee Watch, “Internally Displaced Women from Kashmir : The Role of the UNHCR” / Asha Hans
- A Community of Widows: Missing Citizens: Borders and Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition / Ritu Menon & Kamla Bhasin
- Speaking for Themselves: Partition History, Women’s Histories: Borders and Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition / Ritu Menon & Kamla Bhasin
- Feminist Review: “Maternity Care Needs of Refugee and Asylum Seeking Women In Ireland” / Patricia Kennedy & Jo Murphy-Lawless
- Feminist Review, “No Borders: The Case Against Immigration Control” / Teresa Hayter
- Canadian Women Studies, “Residential Segregation : Refugee and Immigrant Women”
- Our Women, Your Women : The Other Side of Silence / Urvashi Butalia
- Canadian Women Studies, “Not in the Numbers – Domestic Violence and Immigrant Women” / Susan McDonald
- Bulletin on IHL & Refugee Law, “Repatriation of Sri Lankan Refugees from India” / Asha Hans
Web-based
UNHCR Policy on Refugee Women
http://www.safhr.org/refugee_watch10&11_92.htm
Select UNICEF Policy Recommendation on the Gender Dimensions of Internal Displacement http://www.safhr.org/refugee_watch10&11_92.htm
CEDAW : http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/econvention.htm
RW.: Dislocated Subjects : The Story of Refugee Women
http://www.safhr.org/refugee_watch10&11_8.htm
RW.: War and Its Impact on Women in Sri Lanka
http://www.safhr.org/refugee_watch10&11_4.htm
RW : Afghan Women In Iran
http://www.safhr.org/refugee_watch10&11_6.htm
RW.: Refugee Women of Bhutan
http://www.safhr.org/refugee_watch10&11_5.htm
RW.: Rohingya Women – Stateless and Oppressed in Burma
http://www.safhr.org/refugee_watch10&11_5.htm
RW.: Dislocating the Women and Making the Nation
http://www.safhr.org/refugee_watch17_1.htm
http://www.unifemantitrafficking.org/main.html
MODULE C
International, regional, and the national regimes of protection, sovereignty, and the principle of responsibility
Books
- Refugee & The State : Ed. Ranabir Samaddar
Role of UNHCR in India / Sarbani Sen
State of Refugees in India : Strategic Ambiguity / B.S. Chimni - International Refugee Law : A Reader : Ed. B.S. Chimni
Who is a Refugee?, Pgs. 1-81
Asylum, Pgs. 82-160
Rights and Duties of a Refugee, Pgs. 161-209
Photocopies
- Harvard International Review, “Asylum for All : Refugee Protection in the 21st Century” / Rudd Lubbers
- Journal of Refugee Studies, “The Geopolitics of Refugee Studies” / B.S. Chimni
- Journal of Refugee Studies, “Globalization, Humanitarianism and the Refugee Protection” / B.S. Chimni
- “The Changing Nature of Refugee Crisis” (from, Tapan Bose & Rita Manchanda, ed., State, Citizen And Outsiders) / Tapan Bose
- “The inadequacies of international regime for the protection of refugees” (from, ) / J.M. Castro-Magluff
Web-based
F-e-material 1 – International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law
Document printed from the website of the ICRC.
URL: http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/57JMRT
International Committee of the Red Cross
F-e-material 2 –“A Patchwork Protection Regime; Internal Displacement in International Law and Institutional Practice” / David Fisher
Convention Against Torture
CAT : http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/39/a39r046.htm
MODULE D
Resource politics, environmental degradation, and forced migration
Books
- Refugee & The State : Ed. Ranabir Samaddar
- Uprooted Twice : Refugees from the Chittagong Hill Tracts / Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury
Photocopies
- Economic & Political Weekly, “Ethnic Politics and Land Use : Genesis of Conflicts in India’s North-East” / Sanjay Barbora
- “Agrarian Impasse and the Making of an Immigrant Niche” (from, Ranabir Samaddar, The Marginal Nation : Transborder Migration from Bangladesh to West Bengal)
Web-based
- D-e-material 1 – “Globalization, Class and Gender Relations : The Shrimp Industry In South-western Bangladesh” / Meghna Guhathakurta
- D-e-material 2 – Report of Workshop on Engendering Resettlement & Rehabilitation Policies and Programmes in India
- RW : Development Induced Displacement in Pakistan,
http://www.safhr.org/refugee_watch15_3.htm
MODULE E
Internal displacement – causes, linkages, and responses
Book
- Exodus Within Borders : An Introduction to the Crisis of Internal Displacement
Photocopies
- Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
- Guiding Principles On Internal Displacement : Annotations / Walter Kalin
- Refugee Survey Quarterly:
Internal Displacement in Pakistan /Syed Sikander Mehdi
Integrating Protection & Assistance Working with Internally Displaced Persons in Sri Lanka / Bo Schak
International Standards of Protection Versus the Effects of Two Decades of War on the Afghan People / Marcus J. Dolder
Internal Displacement in Afghanistan : Coping Strategies and Gender Differences – Applying International Human Rights Standards / Judy A. Benjamin
Comments on the Case of Afghanistan / Ahmad Fahim Hakim - Introduction : Masses in Flight : The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement : Roberta Cohen and Francis M. Deng
- Global Overview
- EPW : State, Identity Movements & Internal Displacement in the North East : Monirul Hussein
- Citizens & Denizens : Ethnicity, Homelands and the Crisis of Displacement in N.E. India / Sanjib Baru\
Web-based
- The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
- E-material: Protection of Internally Displaced Persons: Inter-Agency Standing Committee Policy Paper
- E-e-material2: Sovereignty as Responsibility: The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement/ Roberta Cohen
- E-e-material3:An Overview of Revisions to the World Bank Resettlement Policy
MODULE F
Ethics of care and justice
Book
- Refugee & The State : Ed. Ranabir Samaddar
The Genocide of 1971 and the Refugee Influx in the East / K.C. Saha - International Refugee Law : A Reader : Ed. B.S. Chimni
Persecution, Pgs. 27-30
Fear, Pgs. 15-27
Photocopies
RW : Post-Amsterdam Migration Policy and European Citizenship / Catherine Wihtol De Wenden
Web-based
- RW.: How Can One Be Muslim In French?
http://www.safhr.org/refugee_watch13_6.htm - RW.: Power, Fear & Ethics
http://www.safhr.org/refugee_watch14_4.htm - The World Bank and Human Rights: The Need for Greater Accountability
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/hrj/iss15/clark.shtml - The Historical and Ethical Origins of Human Rights, Refugee, and Humanitarian Law and What They Mean for Practice Today