1. The State of the Global Protection System for Refugees and Migrants: 2018 Report by Calcutta Research Group in collaboration with Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung. » Click here

2. The Kolkata Declaration 2018. » Click here

3.Justice and Equality: A Political Dilemma? Pascal, Plato, Marx, Distinguished Lecture Series by Etienne Balibar, 2007 .

4.Research on Humanitarian Aspect Along the Indo-Bangladesh Border, CRG in collaboration with International Committee of the Red Cross. » Click here

5. Ranabir Samaddar and Suhit K Sen, eds.,New Subjects and New Governance in India (Delhi: Routledge, 2012).

6. Atig Ghosh ed. Branding the Migrants: Arguments of Rights, Welfare, and Security (Kolkata, Frontpage 2013)

7. The Responsibility to Protect: IDPs and our National and State Human Rights Commission, (Calcutta: Calcutta Research Group, 2007).

8. Thomas G. Weiss, Ramesh Thakur et al.,The Responsibility to Protect: Challenges and Opportunities of the Libyan Intervention,2011. » Click here

9. Fiammetta Borgia, The Responsibility to Protect Doctrine: Between Criticism and Inconsistencies, Journal on the Use of Force and International Law, vol 2 No.2, 223-237. » Click here

10. Voices of the Internally Displaced in South Asia: A Report by Calcutta Research Group (Calcutta: Calcutta Research Group 2006) . » Click here

11. Etienne Balibar, Sandro Mezzadra and Ranabir Samaddar, eds. The Borders of Justice,(Temple University Press, 2013).

12. SibajiPratimBasu,ed. The Fleeing People of South Asia: Selections from Refugee Watch, (Delhi: Anthem Press, 2008).

13.Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, Special Issue on Fallacy of Protection, Vol. 56. » Click here

14. Nasreen Chowdhory, ShamnaThachamPoyil and Meghna Kajla “The Idea of Protection: Norms and Practices of Refugee Management in India,”Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration,Special Issue on Migration, Gender, Governance, vol. 53, 36-54. » Click here

15. Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration,Special Issue on Refugees, Migrants, Violence and the Transformation of Cities, vol 50. » Click here

16. Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration,Special Issue on Migration and Borders of Citizenship,vol 49. » Click here

17. Nasreen Chowdhory, “Marginalization and Exclusion: Politics of Non-Citizen Rights in Postcolonial South Asia,” Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, vol. 42, 1-16. » Click here

18. Laxman Lamichhane, “Reality of Protection: Case of Urban Refugees Residing in Nepal,” Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, vol. 42, 17-31. » Click here

19. Walter Fernandes, Priyanka Mathur Velath, Madhuresh Kumar, Ishita Dey, SanamRoohi and Samir Kumar Das, “The Draft National Rehabilitation Policy (2006) and The Communal Violence Bill (2005): A Critique of the Rehabilitation Policy of the Government of India,” Policies and Practices 16, 2007.

20. SubirBhaumik, Samir Purakayastha, Samrat Chaudhury, NRC Factsheet: Media Factsheet on Issues of Citizenship in the Northeast (Calcutta: Calcutta Research Group, 2020).

1. Abraham, Itty. “Refugees and Humanitarianism.”Refugee Watch,Issue 24-26(December 2005). 

2. Aich, Debashis. “Media on Migrants: Report from the Field-I, Pandemic-induced Return of the Migrant Workers: Response of the State Government (West Bengal).” Policies and Practices,Issue 115 (December 2020). »Click here

3. Bandyopadhyay, Krishna, Soma Ghosh and NilanjanDutta. Eroded Lives. Calcutta Research Group: 2006 »Click here

4. Basavapatna, Sahana. “Access to Healthcare for Refugees in New Delhi”. Refugee Watch Online, 19 March, 2009. »Click here

5. Bose, Pradip Kumar. “Trust and the Refugee Experience”. Refugee Watch, Issue 5 & 6 (June 1999).

6. Calcutta Research Group. “Cities, Rural Migrants and Urban Poor: Issues of Violence and Social Justice” Research Briefs with Policy Implications, 2017. »Click here

7. Calcutta Research Group. “Voices of the Internally Displaced in South Asia.” A Report by Calcutta Research Group. 2006. »Click here

8. Calcutta Research Group. Kolkata Declaration 2018: Protection of Refugees and Migrants. 2018.

9. Calcutta Research Group. “Refugee Watch: A Special Issue on Public Health,” Issue 57 (December 2020). »Click here

10. Chatterjee, Shibasish. “Population Flows, Refugees and the Responsibility to Protect in the Global Protection System”.Policies and Practices, no. 100 (December 2018).

11. Dey, Ishita and SabyasachiBasu Ray Chaudury. The Responsibility to Protect IDPs and Our National and State Human Rights Commissions. Calcutta Research Group: 2007. »Click here

12. Fernandes, Walter; PriyancaMathurVelath, Madhuresh Kumar, IshitaDey, SanamRoohi and Samir Kumar Das. “A Critique of the Rehabilitation policy of the Government of India”.Policies and Practices, no.16 (December 2007).

13. Hebber, Ritambara and MahuaBandyopadhyay. “Migrants, Vigilantes and Violence: A study ofSecurity Guards in Mumbai”. Policies and Practices, no. 73 (December 2015).

14. The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, Mailman School of Public Health and Cornell Law School. Human Mobility and Human Rights in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Principles for Protection forMigrants, Refugees and other displaced persons. May 2020.

15. 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. »Click here

16. Naz, Ruhi. “Mapping Vulnerabilities in Bangladesh: An Indicative Report Based on Household Surveys and Stakeholders’ Dialogues.” Refugee Watch, Issue 55 (June 2020). »Click here

17. Paikra, Gangaram, Rajesh Kasturirangan and BirajPatnaik. “What a people’s jury on the migrant crisis taught us about the gaps in Indian democracy.” Scroll.in, 28 July, 2021. »Click here

18. Roy, Anoushka. “The In-Betweens: An Enquiry into the Quality of Life of Self-Employed North Easterns in Kolkata, India.” Policies and Practices, no. 111 (December 2019). »Click here

19. Samaddar, Ranabir. “Power, Fear, Ethics”. Refugee Watch,Issue 14 (June 2001). »Click here

20. Stranded Workers Action Network. “To Leave or Not to Leave: Lockdown, Migrant Workers andTheir Journeys Home.”SWAN, 5 June 2020

Video Lecture

1. Samaddar, Ranabir and Samita Sen. “COVID-19, Public Health and Sudden Visibility of Migrant Workers”. Calcutta Research Group Webinar Series on Borders of an Epidemic, 12 June 2020. »Click here

1. Anita Sengupta, ‘The Migrant as a Political Object: ‘Guests’ in Turkey, EU Debates and the Middle Eastern Conundrum’, Refugee Watch 49 (June 2017), 62-77 . » Click here

2. B. S. Chimni, ‘The Geoplitics of Refugee Studies: A View from the South’, Refugees: Laws, Politics, Aesthetics A Southern Reader 27-52.

3. Borders of an Epidemic: COVID-19 and Migrant Workers in India – An Online Book Discussion.» Click here

4. Byasdeb Dasgupta, ‘Disinterring Labour in Transit in terms of Class Processes’, Policies & Practices 43 (January 2012), 20-22.» Click here

5. Brett Neilson and Sandro Mezzadra, Border as Method, Or, Multiplication of Labour (Duke University Press, 2013).

6. Brett Neilson and Sandro Mezzadra, “Operations of Capital”, South Atlantic Quarterly, 114 (1), January 2015. » Click here

7. Francis Adaikalam, ‘Invisibility of Deceased International Labour Migrants: The Politics of Recognition’, Policies & Practices 113 (December 2020), 1-12. » Click here

8. Himadri Chatterjee, ‘Land and Labour at the ‘Borders’ of Kolkata: Refugee Lives in-between Town and Country, Sixth Critical Studies Conference, 2017, Calcutta Research Group. » Click here

9. Karl Marx, Capital, Volume 1, Part VIII, “Primitive Accumulation”. » Click here

10. Monirul Hossain, “Status Report on the IDP Situation in Assam”, Policies and Practices 12 . » Click here

11. Neda Deneva-Faje, ‘Essential workers or Dangerous bodies during the COVID-19 pandemic: Eastern European temporary labour migrants outside the public’, Calcutta Research Group. » Click here

12. Ranabir Samaddar (ed.), Borders of an Epidemic: COVID-19 and Migrant Workers in India, Calcutta Research Group.

13. Ranabir Samaddar (ed.), Burdens of an Epidemic: A policy Perspective on Covid-19 and Migrant Labour, Calcutta Research Group.

14. Ranabir Samaddar and Samita Sen, ‘Global Capitalism and Refugee and Migrant Labour’, Policies & Practices 101 (December 2018), 1-18. » Click here

15. Ranabir Samaddar, ‘Continuities, Discontinuities’, and ‘Agrarian Impasse and the Making of an Immigrant Niche’, in The Marginal Nation: Transborder Migration from Bangladesh to West Bengal (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1999.

16. Ranabir Samaddar, ‘Primitive Accumulation and Some Aspects of Work and Life in India in the Early Part of the Twenty First Century’, Policies & Practices 20 (November 2008), 1-28. » Click here

17. Ranabir Samaddar, “The Logistical City”, IIC Quarterly, Special Issue on “The Contemporary Urban Conundrum”, Winter 2016-Spring 2017; subsequently republished in Sujata Patel and Omita Goyal (eds.), India’s Contemporary Urban Conundrum (London and Delhi: Routledge and India International Centre, 2019).

18. Ranabir Samaddar, ‘The Urban Turn’, Policies & Practices 96 (February 2018), 16-23. » Click here

19. Ranabir Samaddar, The Present Epidemiological Moment and Bio Politics from Below’, Social Science Baha Lecture, 8 December 2020. » Click here

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

21. Ranabir Samaddar and Paula Banerjee, Migration and Circles of Insecurity (Delhi: Rupa, 2010).

22. Ratna Kapur, ‘The Citizen and the Migrant: Postcolonial Anxieties, Law, and the Politics of Exclusion/Inclusion’, Refugees: Laws, Politics, Aesthetics A Southern Reader 90-117.

23. Samita Sen, ‘Engaging with the Idea of ‘Transit Labour’’, Policies & Practices 43 (January 2012), 1-3. » Click here

24. Shibashis Chatterjee, ‘The Politics of Humanitarianism: Some Considerations’, Refugee Watch 56 (December 2020), 1-20. » Click here

25. Shruti Dubey, ‘Accumulation at the Margins: The Case of the Khora Colony’, Policies & Practices 67 (November 2014), 18-29 » Click here

26. Subir Sinha, ‘Separation, Mobility and the Ordinary City: On Migrants’ Subjection and Subjectivity’, Policies & Practices 96 (February 2018), 1-8. » Click here

27. Subhas Ranajan Chakrabarty, “Colonialism, Resource Crisis, and Forced Migration.” Policies and Practices, no. 42 (2011): 1-15. » Click here

28. Sucharita Sengupta and Paula Banerjee, Refugee Movement: Another Aspect of Popular Movements in West Bengal in the 1950s and 1960s’, Policies and Practices 80 (October 2016), 1-24. » Click here

Legal Documents (International)

1. Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951. » Click here

2. Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, 1967. » Click here

3. UNHCR. “The Refugee Convention, 1951: The travaux préparatoires analysed with a Commentary by Dr. Paul Weis.” 1990. » Click here

4. UNHCR. “Commentary of the Refugee Convention 1951 (Articles 2-11, 13-37).” October 1997. » Click here

5. UNHCR. “Handbook on procedures and criteria for determining refugee status and guidelines on international protection under the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees.” February 2019. » Click here

6. Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa, 1969. » Click here

7. The Cartagena Declaration on Refugees, 1984. » Click here

8. Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, 1998. » Click here

9. OCHA and Brookings Institution. “Handbook for Applying the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.” 1999. » Click here

10. Walter Kalin. “Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: Annotations.” 2008. » Click here

11. UN General Assembly. “New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants.” September 2016. » Click here

12. UN General Assembly. “Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: Part II Global compact on refugees.” 2018. » Click here

13. UN. “Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.” July 2018. » Click here

Legal Documents (India)

1. National Human Rights Commission v. State of Arunachal Pradesh and Another , 1996 SCC (1) 742. » Click here

2. Malavika Karlekar v. Union of India and Another , Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 583 of 1992. » Click here

3. Nandita Haskar v. State of Manipur and Others , High Court of Manipur, Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 6 of 2021. » Click here

4. Gazette of India Extraordinary. “A Bill to provide for the establishment of an effective system to protect refugees and asylum-seekers by means of an appropriate legal framework to determine claims for asylum and to provide for the rights and obligations flowing from such status and matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.” Bill no. LXX of 2019. » Click here

5. Lok Sabha. “The Asylum Bill, 2015.” Bill no. 334 of 2015. » Click here

Calcutta Research Group

1. Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group. “Kolkata Declaration.” November 30, 2018. » Click here

2. Oishik, Sircar and Sara Dehim, eds. Refugees: Laws, Politics, Aesthetics; a Southern Reader . Kolkata: Calcutta Research Group, 2020. » Click here

3. Chaudhury, Sabyasachi Basu Ray. “Transition without Justice in the Postcolonial World: Protection Discourses for Refugees and Migrants in South Asia.” Policies and Practices 117(December 2020). » Click here

4. Rahola, Federico, and Priya Singh. “Reflections on the Mediterranean Refugee Crisis.” Policies and Practices 105 (December 2018). » Click here

5. Chatterjee, Shibashis. “Population Flows, Refugees, and the Responsibility to Protect in the Global Protection System.” Policies and Practices 100 (December 2018). » Click here

6. Banerjee, Paula. “Responsibility to Protect: Questions of Race, Religion, Resource and the Unspoken Fourth.” Policies and Practices 99 (December 2018). » Click here

7. Samaddar, Ranabir. “Promises and Paradoxes of a Global Gaze.” Policies and Practices 98 (December 2018). » Click here

8. Sengupta, Anita, and Simon Behrman. “Labour, Law and Forced Migration.” Policies and Practices 70 (July 2015). » Click here

9. Ghosh, Kusumika. “How Protected are the Refugees: A Comparative Study of the Contemporary States of Germany and India in Light of the Geneva Convention, 1951.” Refugee Watch 56 (December 2020): 103-16 . » Click here

10. Behrman, Simon. “Laws of Asylum and Protection: The Indian Experience in a South Asian Context.” Refugee Watch 54 (December 2019): 15-28. » Click here

11. Chowdhory, Nasreen, and Shamna Thacham Poyil. “The Global Compact of Refugees: A Viewpoint of Global South.” Refugee Watch 54 (December 2019): 1-14. » Click here

12. Chowdhory, Nasreen, Shamna T.P, and Meghna Kajla. “The Idea of Protection: Norms and Practice of Refugee Management in India.” Refugee Watch 53 (June 2019): 36-54. » Click here

13. Shanti, Jessica De. “Pluralisms of Law: India’s Place in the International Refugee Protection Regime.” Refugee Watch 46 (December 2015): 73-93. » Click here

14. Tometten, Christoph. “Juridical Response to Mixed and Massive Population Flows.” Refugee Watch 39 and 40 (June and December 2012): 125-40. » Click here

15. Mohammad, Nour. “Refugee Protection Under the Constitution of Bangladesh: A Brief Overview.” Refugee Watch 39 and 40 (June 2012): 141-56. » Click here

16. Biswas, Sanjoy, and Md. Akterul Alam Chowdhury. “Climate Change Induced Displacement and Migration in Bangladesh: The Need for Rights-Based Solutions.” Refugee Watch 39 and 40 (June and December 2012): 157-180. » Click here

17. Solomon, Andrew. “Justice, Accountability, and the Protection of Displaced Persons.” Refugee Watch 35 (June 2010): 51-63. » Click here

18. Kolmannskog, Vikram. “The Point of No Return: Exploring Law on Cross-Border Displacement in the Context of Climate Change.” Refugee Watch 34 (December 2009): 28-41. » Click here

19. Hoenig, Patrick. “ Exclusion from Refugee Protection in Europe: An Attempt at Legal Conceptualization.” Refugee Watch 29 (June 2007). » Click here

20. Thiagarajah, Jeevan, and Dinusha Pathiraja. “Human Rights and Humanitarian Laws and the Continuing Displacement in Sri Lanka.” Refugee Watch 28 (December 2006). » Click here

21. Goldman, Robert Kogod. “The Guiding Principles Normative Status, and its Effective Domestic Implementation.” Refugee Watch 24, 25 and 26 (December 2005). » Click here

22. Sheikh, Atta-ur-Rehman. “Developing a Legal Regime for Refugees in Pakistan.” Refugee Watch 24, 25 and 26 (December 2005). » Click here

23. Ahluwalia, Pooja. “Ethical Origins of Refugee Rights and Humanitarian Law.” Refugee Watch 23 (December 2004). » Click here

24. Malik, Salma. “Impact of Inter-nation Jurisdiction on Afgan Refugee Rights.” Refugee Watch 22 (August 2004). » Click here

25. Sheikh, Atta-ur-Rehman. “Towards a Legal Regime for Refugee protection in Pakistan.” Refugee Watch 18 (April 2003). » Click here

26. Bose, Tapan. “The Legal Scenario of Refugee Protection in South Asia.” Refugee Watch 9 (March 2000). » Click here

27. Sen, Sarbani. “The International Refugee Law Regime and Recent Changes.” Refugee Watch 4 (December 1998). » Click here

Others

1. Jacob, Happymon. “ India does have a refugee problem.” The Hindu , April 10, 2021. » Click here

2. Acharya, Bhairav. “The Future of Asylum in India: Four Principles to Appraise Recent Legislative Proposals.” NUJS Law Review 9 (2016): 173-228. » Click here

3. Suryanarayan, V. “Need For National Refugee Law.” ISIL Year Book of International Humanitarian and Refugee Law (2001). » Click here

1. Basu Ray Chaudhury, Sabyasachi., Transition without Justice in the Postcolonial World: Protection Discourses for Refugees and Migrants in South Asia (Policies and Practices 117), Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, December 2020. » Click here

2. Das, Samir Kumar., “Governing Citizens: National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Question of Migration in India,” in Interrogating Citizenship: Perspective from India’s East and North East (Practices and Policies 109), Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, December, 2019, Kolkata, 1-19. » Click here

3. Basu Ray Chaudhury, Sabyasachi., Statelessness, International Conventions and the Need for New Initiatives? Addressing the New Frontiers of Statelessness. (Practices and Policies 102), Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, December 2018, Kolkata. » Click here

4. Canefe, Nergis., “ Post-Colonial State and Violence : Rethinking the Middle East and North Africa outside the Blindfold of Area Studies,” Refugee Watch : A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, 45, 7-31. » Click here

5.Chakraborty, Subhas Ranjan. “Colonialism, Resource Crisis and Forced Migration.” Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, 55, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, 71-90 » Click here

6. Mezzadra, Sandro., “Proliferation of Borders and the Right to Escape.” Refugee Watch : A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, 41, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, 1-14. » Click here

7. Begum, Anjuman Ara., “Undocumented Immigrants in Assam : Understanding the Jurisprudence in Past, Present and Future,” Refugee Watch : A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, 56, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, 62-87. » Click here

8. Limbu, Amrita., “Right to Return: The Tibetan and Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal,” Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, 42, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, 41-53. » Click here

9. Samaddar, Ranbir., “ Governing Unruly Population Flows.,” Oishik Siorcar, Sara Dehm (Eds), Refugees : Laws, Politics, Aesthetics : A Southern Reader, Calcutta Research Group, 2020, 53-89. » Click here

10. Barbora, Sanjay., The Crisis of Citizenship in Assam. » Click here

11. Basu Ray Chaudhury, Anasua., Ghosh Atig, Banerjee, Paula., The State of Being Stateless: An Account of South Asia, Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2018. » Click here

Journal Articles

1. Abraham, Itty. “Refugees and Humanitarianism”. Refugee Watch (Issue 24-26, December 2005). » Click here

2. Basavapatna, Sahana. “Access to Healthcare for Refugees in New Delhi”. Refugee Watch Online (19 March, 2009). » Click here

3. Bhagat, Ali. “Forced (Queer) Migration in Everyday Violence: The Geographies of Life, death and access in Cape Town”. Geoforum (2017). » Click here

4. Bose, Pradip Kumar. “Trust and the Refugee Experience”. Refugee Watch (Issue 5& 6, June 1999). » Click here

5. Samaddar, Ranabir. “Power, Fear, Ethics”. Refugee Watch (Issue: 14, June 2001). » Click here

6. Samaddar, Ranabir. “In life, in Death”. Seminar (Issue 533, January 2004). » Click here

7. Weiner, Myron. “Security, Stability and International Migration”. International Security (Vol. 17, No. 3, Winter 1992-93). » Click here

Reports

1. Azim Premji University. Sate of Working India 2021: One Year of COVID-19. 2021 » Click here

2. Stranded Workers Action Network. To Leave or Not to Leave: Lockdown, Migrant Workers and Their Journeys Home. SWAN, 5 June 2020. » Click here

Policy Brief/ Toolkit

1. Calcutta Research Group (2018). Kolkata Declaration 2018: Protection of Refugees and Migrants. » Click here

2. Human Mobility and Human Rights in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Principles for Protection for Migrants, Refugees and other displaced persons. Developed and Published under The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, Mailman School of Public Health and Cornell Law School. Dated: May 2020. » Click here

Video Lectures

1. Samaddar, Ranabir and Samita Sen. “COVID-19, Public Health and Sudden Visibility of Migrant Workers”. Calcutta Research Group Webinar Series on Borders of an Epidemic, 12 June 2020. » Click here

Occasional Papers

1. Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury. “ In search of space: The Scheduled Caste Movement in West Bengal after Partition”. Policies and Practices 59 (February 2014). » Click here

2. Chatterjee, Shibasish. “Population Flows, Refugees and the Responsibility to Protect in the Global Protection System”. Policies and Practices- 100 (December 2018). » Click here

3. Fernandes, Walter; Priyanca Mathur Velath, Madhuresh Kumar, Ishita Dey, Sanam Roohi and Samir Kumar Das. “A Critique of the Rehabilitation policy of the Government of India”. Policies and Practices 16 (December 2007). » Click here

4. Hebber, Ritambara and Mahua Bandyopadhyay. “Migrants, Vigilantes and Violence: A study of Security Guards in Mumbai”. Policies and Practices 73 (December 2015), P. 28-48. » Click here