RESEARCH AND ORIENTATION WORKSHOP ON FORCED MIGRATION
Sixth Annual Research & Orientation Workshop
in
Global Protection of Migrants and Refugees
Kolkata, 15-20 November 2021
Participants
Participants of Module A: Protection and Punishment (Race, Caste, and Policing)
Name & Details of the Participants
Sarulakshmi R., Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi
Email: [email protected]
Bionote: Sarulakshmi is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi. She has submitted her thesis (PhD) in International Migration Law from the Centre for International Legal Studies, School of International Studies, JNU. She has worked on the ‘Rights of Migrant Workers in International Law’ and her area of interest includes a wide range of issues like international migration law, labour rights, rights of smuggled and trafficked persons, and trade and labour rights. She is also a published scholar in the field of migration and has presented many papers in various universities including IIT Madras and Delhi University.
Country – India
Ankur Tamuli Phukan , Programme and Research Associate in Calcutta Research Group Email: [email protected]
Bionote: Ankur Tamuli Phukan is a Programme and Research Associate in Calcutta Research Group. He did his PhD from Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (affiliated to Jadavpur University) in 2020 in history. He has a broad research interest in issues such as migration and citizenship, conflict and peace studies, identity and nationalism, and the intersections of culture and economy.
Country – India
Rituparna Datta , Research and Programme Assistant at Calcutta Research Group Email: [email protected]
Bionote: Rituparna Datta is a Research and Programme Assistant at Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata. Her research interests focus on migration and mobilities in colonial and postcolonial India. Her ongoing doctoral research from Centre for Informal Sector and Labour studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University looks into the health and wellbeing of coolie labour in the indentured mobilities through a gendered lens.
Country – India
Participants of Module B: Migrant Workers and the Refugee: Complicated Terrains of Welfare and Asymmetric Social Protection
Name & Details of the Participants
Farseen Ali PV, M.Phil research scholar in Social Work at Madras School of Social Work, Chennai
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Bionote: Farseen Ali P.V is an M.Phil research scholar in Social Work at Madras School of Social Work, Chennai. He has completed his M.A in Social Work from the Department of Social Work, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi and B.A in English Language and Literature from University of Calicut. He has previously associated with Katha India and Voice of Slum as a social work trainee as part of his Master’s course and has worked as a Correspondent at Athma Creative Lab, a media company in Kerala. He was an Indian delegate at the Commonwealth Youth Dialogue Conference on Peace and Security 2019, organized by the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Royal Commonwealth Society. He has worked with KMCC (A Malayali diaspora organisation) as a researcher cum co-ordinator for a documentation project on the Survival of Malayali Migrant Communities in the Middle East, South Asia, Europe, and North America and has also volunteered with UN-OHCHR for their Crowdsourcing Project of Best Practices during Covid19 in Kerala. His area of interest includes Refugees, Humanitarian Work, International Social Work, and Peace Building.
Country – India
Mohonlal Patra, State Aided College Teacher (SACT I) in the Dept. English at K.D College of Commerce & General Studies, Midnapore
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Bionote: Mohonlal Patra is a State Aided College Teacher (SACT I) in the Dept. English at K.D College of Commerce & General Studies, Midnapore. He has obtained his M.A. (in English literature) from Banaras Hindu University in 2016. His areas of interest include Postcolonial literature, Dalit literature, Tribal literature, American literature, Cultural Studies and Partition Literature etc. He has presented papers in National and International seminars. He has been constantly publishing papers in various reputed journals and edited volumes. He has cleared UGC NET twice. He has also CG-SET.
Country – India
Sunita Panth Chettri, Research Assistant at Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Sikkim
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Bionote: Sunita Panth is working as Research Assistant at Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Sikkim. She is working on an Indian Council of Social Sciences Research (ICSSR) funded research project. In addition to this her area of research is human rights and refugee laws where she particularly focuses at women refugees. Prior to joining NIT Sikkim, she worked as Teaching Associate at AURO University, Surat, Gujarat. She also served as Assistant Professor of Law at International Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab & MATS University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, where she interacted with graduate and postgraduate students of law, management and engineering. Presently she is pursuing her doctoral research (Ph.D.) on Rights of Refugee Women: A Socio-legal Study at National Law University, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. She was a gold medallist in LL.M (Human Rights) from National Law University, Assam. She completed her B.A.LL.B from Department of Law, Sikkim University.
Country – India
Jonathan S. Parhusip, Ph.D. Student at the Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Email: [email protected]
Bionote: Jonathan S. Parhusip is a Ph.D. Student at the Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. His research interests include the politics of migration, the logistical chain of Indonesia-Taiwan migration industry, and Southeast Asian studies. His Ph.D. research explores the employment practices of SEA migrant fishers onboard Taiwanese fishing vessels, migrant solidarity, and labor rights activism in Taiwan. His recent article titled The making of freedom and common forms of struggle of runaway in Taiwan (SAQ, 2021).
Country – Indonesia
Dogus Simsek , Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology at Kingston University London
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Bionote: Dr Doğuş Şimşek is a Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology at Kingston University London, and a fellow in the Europe-Asia Research Platform on Forced Migration at IWM, the Institute for Human Sciences, in Vienna. Before joining Kingston, she taught at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London (UCL) between 2019 and 2020. She is a sociologist with research and teaching experience in migration and refugee studies. Before joining Kingston, she taught at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London. Her work focuses on the intersections between race, class and gender in the context of migration. She is currently exploring how race, racism, and racialization have become intertwined with broader issues of migration. Her main research interests include forced migration, the refugee experience, the intersection of race, class, and gender, transnational migration, and second generation.
Country – UK
Meric Caglar Chelsey, PhD candidate (a.b.d) in Gender Studies at Central European University
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Bionote: Meriç Çağlar is a PhD candidate (a.b.d) in Gender Studies at Central European University. She completed her MAs at Rovira i Virgili (Euro-Mediterranean Relations) and Pompeu Fabra (Migration Management) Universities in Spain. She worked as a gender and forced migration researcher and consultant with academic and international organizations. Currently, she is working on her PhD project ‘Gendered Vulnerabilities, Precarities and Temporalities: Refugee Women Under International Protection in Turkey”. Her research interests lie in the area of; gender and asylum, intersectionality in migration studies, refugee protection and integration in Turkey, migrant deservingness.
Country – Turkey
Participants of Module C: Refugees and Migrants as Subjects of Economics, Politics, and Gender Division
Name & Details of the Participants
Aditi Mishra, Doctoral student at School of Social Work, TISS Mumbai
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Bionote: Aditi is a Doctoral student at School of Social Work, TISS Mumbai. Her research is focused on the experiences of exclusion and marginalization of a Nomadic community in Varanasi city. Her M.Phil. study looked into the experiences of women accessing Urban Commons in Varanasi. She has done her Master of Arts in Social Work from Central University of Rajasthan and Bachelor of Arts from Satyawati College, University of Delhi. Aditi is interested in working with the issues of Nomadic and Denotified tribes, caste, gender, migration and small cities and towns.
Country – India
Anisha Bordoloi, Researcher , Home and Political Department, Government of Assam
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Bionote: Dr. Anisha Bordoloi is a Researcher with the Home and Political Department, Government of Assam in which she is currently engaged with a project titled ‘Political History of Assam, 1947-2012’. Dr. Bordoloi has earned her Ph. D in History from University of Delhi. Her area of research interest comprises of labour history, particularly, the history of tea plantations in Assam and the history of North East India in general. She was granted a Teaching Assistant scholarship by the University of Delhi in 2010 and a Junior Research Fellowship by the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi in the year 2013. She has also worked as a researcher for different projects in Dibrugarh University and Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development, Guwahati over the past few years. Her publications include several book reviews and research articles in different academic journals in India and abroad.
Country – India
Kasturi Datta, Political Scientist, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi
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Bionote: A Political Scientist by training, she was awarded a Ph.D. degree in 2018 from the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi. With 11 years of teaching and research experience, she has been teaching various courses in Political Science, Gender Studies and Development Studies across different Colleges and Universities. Her doctoral work titled ‘State, Globalisation and Workers’ Struggle in the Unorganised Sector: A Study of Women Construction Workers’ in Delhi NCR Region in the New Millennium’ was an empirical and analytical study on the changing dynamics and gendered nature of urban informal sector in Delhi NCR as it explored the complex interconnections between urban governance, urban democracy and the politics of citizenship, amidst the changing paradigm of labour governance and labour policies/laws operating in a rapidly globalising urban city and agglomeration. Her research interests are in Public Policy, Political Sociology, Labour Studies, Gender Studies and Development Studies. She has participated and presented research papers at various national and international conferences and has published chapters in edited books as well as research papers and articles in reputed journals.
Country – India
Nisharuddin Khan, PhD Research Scholar at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK)
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Bionote: Nisharuddin Khan is a PhD Research Scholar at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK). He works on the implications of partition on the Muslim community of Bengal. His focus is on two particular groups of Muslims – those who remained in West Bengal as religious minorities and those who left India for East Pakistan. He has pursued his Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Foreign Policy Studies from Institute of Foreign Policy Studies (IFPS) under Calcutta University. He recently received the Tata Trusts – Partition Archive Research Grant from the 1947 Partition Archive and successfully completed the research project.
Country – India
Suman Mandal , MA in International Relations and Area Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
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Bionote: Suman Mandal has a MA in International Relations and Area Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is pursuing an M. Phil in English from Institute of Advanced Communication, Education and Research (IACER), Pokhara University, Nepal. He is a faculty at IACER. He teaches courses related to international relations. He is also a high school teacher. He teaches English General Paper of GCE A Levels of the Cambridge International Examination Assessment at Rato Bangala School, Lalitpur, Nepal. His areas of interest are International Relations especially regional geopolitics, gender, migrants and refugee issues. He also a keen observer of domestic politics development of India and Nepal.
Country – Nepal
Participants of Module D: Forced Migration, Law, and Critical Jurisprudence
Name & Details of the Participants
Monika Verma, Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
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Bionote: Monika Verma is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. She holds a master’s in Defense and Strategic Studies from the University of Allahabad, India. Her research mainly focuses on Defense and Strategic Studies, Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Migration Studies, International Relations, and Citizenship Studies. Her current doctoral dissertation focuses on the plight of Rohingya refugees in India.
Country – India
Shimul Dutta , Ph.D Pursuing, LLM , B.A. LLB(H)
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Bionote: Shimul Dutta is pursuing my Ph.D from, Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property, IIT Kharagpur on climate refugee and climate change induced migration . Interest area include environmental law, human rights, humanitarian law, displacement and climate refugee. Before joining Ph.D , I was working as a Research Assistant in WBNUJS from 2014 to 2015 and Assistant Professor in Department of Juridical Sciences, JIS University from 2015 to 2019.
Country – India
Sreetapa Chakrabarty, Assistant Professor in Political Science at the Centre for Distance and Online Education, Rabindra Bharati University
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Bionote: Sreetapa Chakrabarty completed her graduation in Political Science (Honours) from St. Xavier’s College, University of Calcutta (now autonomous university) and her post-graduation in Political Science from Rabindra Bharati University. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the Centre for Distance and Online Education, Rabindra Bharati University. She is also a Research Affiliate at the Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study, University of London and is a core committee member of the Refugee Law Initiative Working Group on Externalization. She is presently pursuing her doctoral research at the Department of Political Science, Rabindra Bharati University and her research focuses on the Rohingya refugee and stateless children in Bangladesh. Her research interests include International Refugee Law, gender and forced migration and stateless and refugee children in South Asia.
Country – India
Daniiarova Gulzina Mamatalievna, English Instructor in the Department of International Relations, Osh State University, Kyrgyzstan
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Bionote: Daniiarova Gulzina Mamatalievna is an English Instructor in the Department of International Relations, Osh State University, Kyrgyzstan. Gulzina reads lectures on migration processes in Central Asia for international relations students. She holds a Master’s Degree in Political Sciences from Osh State University. She is a researcher in the National Academy of Science of the Kyrgyz Republic. Her research currently focuses on causes and consequences of women migration from Kyrgyzstan to Russia. Currently she is conducting a research on the impact of local traditions on migration and wants to find solutions to this problem.
Country – Kyrgyzstan
Thi Trang Nguyen, Ph.D, The Institute of Social and Cultural Studies at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
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Bionote: Nguyen Thi Trang is a young scholar in Vietnam. She is studying in the doctoral program of the Institute of Social and Cultural Studies at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and has obtained the qualifications of doctoral candidates. Before coming to study in Taiwan, she served as a lecturer in the Department of History, Thai Nguyen University of education, Vietnam, with a training background in Vietnam history, Southeast Asian history, and Western modern history. After entering the Institute of Social and Cultural Studies of Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, she is interested postcolonial theory, colonial history, and Foucault’s biopolitics theory. She is currently researching the topic of Indochinese workers in the French colonial system.
Country – Vietnam
Mujib Ahmad Azizi, Research Officer at AREU
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Bionote: Mujib Ahmad Azizi is a Research Officer at AREU since 2011. From 2018 up to date works as research officer and field researcher for the Global Challenge Research Fund RC-UK proposal entitled “Drugs and (dis)order: Building sustainable peacetime economies in the aftermath of war.” This is also under AREU contract. Previously, He has worked as a deputy program manager for Mercy Corps in Kapisa – Afghanistan between 2009 and 2011 (Food Security and Natural Disaster for Urban and Rural People) and Community Development Programs (CDP). He has worked with Aga Khan Foundation as a social organizer and research assistant from 2006 to 2009. From 2002 to 2005 he worked as a health educator community mobilizer in Afghanistan Red Crescent Societies for the returnees and migration. He holds a degree in English Literature from Baghlan University. He is also a member of civil society environmental activist working on the climate change, natural resources and extractive industries. He has membership of Environment Natural Resources Management Network (ENRMNP) and member of Mining Watch Afghanistan (MWA) and active member of CoST Infrastructure Transparency Initiative.
Country – Afghanistan
Participants of Module E: Derogation of Rights of Refugees and Migrants, and Situations of Statelessness
Name & Details of the Participants
Gurvinder Kour, Assistant Professor in the Department of Higher Education, UT of Jammu & Kashmir Email: [email protected]
Bionote: Gurvinder Kour is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Higher Education, UT of Jammu & Kashmir with a teaching experience of about four years. She completed her Master’s & M.Phil. from Center for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has a keen interest in Public Policy, Political Institutions & Refugee Studies.
Country – India
Roshni Sharma, Research Scholar, Jain (Deemed-to-be) University, Bengaluru, India Email: [email protected]
Bionote: Roshni Sharma is a research scholar, pursuing her doctoral degree from Jain (Deemed-to-be) University, Bengaluru, India. Her research topic is Refugee Women and Identity. Prior to this she has worked on Partition Literature and Refugee Woman in India for her M.Phil dissertation, submitted to University of Delhi. Her interest comprises of women issues specially in understanding the way literature is written by and on women. Her previous work includes “Re (Presenting) Refugee Women in Bengal’s Partition Narratives” in Amit Ranjan (ed) Partition of India: Postcolonial Legacies (Routledge) and Image of Refugee Women in Post Partition Literature in Arts and Education, International Academic Journal.
Country – India
Coline Schupfer, Associate Policy Officer Email: [email protected]
Bionote: Coline Schupfer is an Associate Policy Officer with the Open Society Justice Initiative, where she works on a cross-regional project that challenges the contingency of rights upon legal status and the reliance of national identity and security on the exclusion of minority groups and marginalized populations. Prior to joining the Justice Initiative, she worked on legal aid and access to justice for refugees and asylum seekers in Greece, with indigenous communities in Canada, and for the European Parliamentary Research Service, Global Rights Compliance, and the United Nations at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Coline is the co-editor of the upcoming book ‘Fighting Global Apartheid and Technologies of Violence’, which will be published with Haymarket Books in 2022. Her work is also featured in the Asia Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law, Opinio Juris, International Justice Monitor, and Border Criminologies.
Country – UK
Neetu Pokharel,
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Bionote: Neetu Pokharel is as a program officer in an NGO Alliance for Social Dialogue (ASD), Nepal. She is responsible for Access to Justice Portfolio with a particular focus on Legal Empowerment and Women’s Rights. Neetu supports the work of National and community organizations to promote access to justice of marginalized group in Nepal including women’s access to justice. She is leading the implementation of OSF’s Legal Empowerment Shared Framework with a focus on SDG goal 16. She has been engaged in policy advocacy, campaigns and research related to access to justice and statelessness in Nepal. She also works with the community paralegals who support marginalized groups for their access to justice and legal identity documents. Neetu holds her Masters in Conflict, Peace and Development Studies (CPDS) from University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka.
Country – Nepal
Salwa Jahan, International Development & Humanitarian Assistance, and Political Science from the University of Paris-1 Panthéon Sorbonne, and the University of Helsinki
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Bionote: Salwa Jahan holds a dual Master degree in International Development & Humanitarian Assistance, and Political Science from the University of Paris-1 Panthéon Sorbonne, and the University of Helsinki (as an Erasmus scholar). She pursued a bachelor degree in Political Sciences from Panthéon-Sorbonne. Growing an interest in the field of social development, she started her career in research focused on the Bangladesh context: understanding livelihood opportunities of pit emptiers, exploring the legal framework on child marriage, gender mainstreaming approaches in the RMG sector, and assessing gender-based violence among the Rohingya community. She has experience working in programme and grants development as part of a leading legal aid NGO- Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust, as well as in managing European Union-funded programme on Freedom of Expression and Digital Citizenship, on behalf of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. Through her work, she wishes to contribute to the advancement of human rights.
Country – India
Niloy Biswas, Associate Professor of the Department of International Relations at the University of Dhaka
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Bionote: Dr. Niloy Ranjan Biswas is an Associate Professor of the Department of International Relations at the University of Dhaka. In 2016, he completed his Ph.D. in International Politics from City, University of London. He was a recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship (2010-12) to pursue a Master’s degree in Security Policy Studies at The George Washington University, Washington DC. In September 2017, he successfully completed the United States Institute of Peace (USIP)-Resolve Fellowship to conduct a research on community policing and its challenges in preventing violent extremism. He has written extensively on law-enforcement agencies and preventing violent extremism, security governance, and regional contributions to United Nations peace support endeavors. His most recent articles are published in National Security (VIF), Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, International Peacekeeping (Taylor & Francis), Journal of International Peacekeeping (Brill) and Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies Journal.
Country – Bangladesh
Participants of Module F: Protection Ethics and Practices of Care and Solidarity
Name & Details of the Participants
Azeemah Saleem, Doctoral Candidate at the Center for West Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
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Bionote: Azeemah Saleem is a Doctoral Candidate at the Center for West Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her research focuses on Syrian Refugees in Germany. It aims to understand the refugee crisis through the conceptual framework of Global Justice, analyse the moral institutional structure and responsibility of the state towards the refugees. She has completed her Masters of Philosophy (International Studies) from the Academy of International Studies and a Major in Political Science from the Department of Political Science from Jamia Millia Islamia with an excellent scholastic record. She has a keen interest in research and academia and aspires to work for the cause of the refugees in future. Recently, she has contributed a chapter in an edited volume titled “A psycho emotive dimension of refugees in anticipation integration: A case study of Syrian refugees in Germany.”
Country – India
Anand Upendran, Research & Programme Assistant at CRG Email: [email protected]
Bionote: Anand Upendran studied law at university. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS) and his master’s from the School of Legal Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology, where he specialised in human rights and administrative law. He attempts to approach law as an eclectic subject with intimate linkages to history, philosophy, politics, language, and the challenge of improving human lives. He also has practical experience in the field of refugee protection, having interned with the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Dharamshala and the UNHCR’s field office in Chennai.
Country – India
Priyankar Dey, Research & Programme Assistant at CRG Email: [email protected]
Bionote: Priyankar Dey is a Research & Programme Assistant at CRG. He did his BA and MA from the Presidency College and University of Calcutta respectively and completed his M.Phil in Social Sciences from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. He has taught history at the Serampore College and the West Bengal State University. Besides migration and displacement, Priyankar’s research interests also include histories of science, technology, medicine and public health; objects and commodities; political economy and economic history of colonial and post-colonial India. At CRG, his ongoing research work tries to explore questions of public health and politics in post-partition Bengal.
Country – India