RESEARCH AND ORIENTATION WORKSHOP ON FORCED MIGRATION
Sixth Annual Research & Orientation Workshop
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Global Protection of Migrants and Refugees
Kolkata, 15-20 November 2021
Module Coordinators
Name & Details of the Coordinators
Module /Working Groups
Nasreen Chowdhory, Assistant Professor, Delhi University
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Bionote: Nasreen Chowdhory teaches in the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi. She has a PhD in Political Science from McGill University, Canada; her Masters and MPhil degrees from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has published several research papers in national and international peer-reviewed journals, and guest edited a special issue on “Displacement: A ‘state of exception’” in the International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, 2016. Some of her significant publications include Refugees, Citizenship and Belonging: A Contested Terrains (Springer 2018) and an edited volume on Deterritorialized Identities and Transborder Movement in South Asia with Nasir Uddin with Springer 2019. Citizenship, Nationalism and Refugeehood of Rohingyas in Southern Asia co-edited with Biswajit Mohanty, Springer 2020, She is presently working on two edited volumes on Gender, Identity and Migration in India (Palgrave 2020, forthcoming) with Prof. Paula Banerjee. She is an Executive member of International Association for the Study of Forced Migration and of Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata.
Module A: Protection and Punishment (Race, Caste, and Policing)
Manish K. Jha, TISS, Mumbai & Calcutta Research Group
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Bionote: Manish K. Jha is a Professor at Centre for Community Organisation and Development Practice (CODP), School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. He has been the Dean of School of Social Work and Chairperson of CODP at TISS. His research interests include Migration, Disaster and Development, Middle Classes, Poverty and Social Justice. Prof Jha has been visiting fellow at different university in the U.K. and other European Countries. He teaches courses on Social Policy, Social Action, Advocacy and Movements, and Migration and Politics. He is a member of Calcutta Research Group. He has been a Governing Board member to a range of universities and research institutes. He has published numerous articles in reputed international journals and edited book. Prof. Jha has been the project lead of research grant from the British Council, Erasmus, Ford Foundation, University of Chicago and Animal and Society Institute, etc.
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Mouleshri Vyas , TISS, Mumbai & Calcutta Research Group
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Bionote: Mouleshri Vyas is a Professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai at the Centre for Community Organisation and Development Practices. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Mumbai University, Master of Arts in Social Work (with Specialisation in Urban and Rural Community Development) from TISS, Mumbai, and PhD in Sociology from Mumbai University.
Module B: Migrant Workers and the Refugee: Complicated Terrains of Welfare and Asymmetric Social Protection
Ranabir Samaddar, Distinguished Chair Professor on Migration and Forced Migration Studies, Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata
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Bionote: Ranabir Samaddar is currently the Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies, Calcutta Research Group. He belongs to the critical school of thinking and is considered as one of the foremost theorists in the field of migration and forced migration studies. He has worked extensively on issues of forced migration, the theory and practices of dialogue, identity politics, nationalism, governance, post-colonial statehood in South Asia, neoliberalism, and new regimes of technological restructuring and labour control. The much-acclaimed The Marginal Nation (1999) and The Politics of Dialogue (2004) were culmination of his long work on historical and social affinities, geographical purviews, concept of nation-state and borders, human rights, justice and peace. His most recent works include A Pandemic and the Politics of Life with Women Unlimited in 2021 and The Postcolonial Age of Migration with Routledge published in 2020. Among his other works are Migrants and the Neoliberal City (Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2018), Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age (New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2017), Ideas and Frameworks of Governing India (London and New York: Routledge, 2016), Passive Revolution in West Bengal – 1977-2011 (New Delhi: Sage, 2013).
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Arup Kumar Sen, Serampore College and Calcutta Research Group
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Bionote: Arup K. Sen is a Professor at the Department of Commerce, Serampore College, West Bengal, India. He is also a member of Calcutta Research Group. He earned his doctorate at the University of Calcutta and has published on Indian labor history primarily for Economic & Political Weekly (EPW), the leading scholarly weekly in India. His work includes: ‘The Gandhian Experiment in Ahmedabad: Towards a Gramscian Reading’, ‘Capital, Labour and the State: Eastern and Western India, 1918-1939’, ‘Marxism and Labour History’, and ‘Mode of Labour Control in Colonial India’. He regularly writes in Mainstream Weekly. He has also contributed to Ours to Master and to Own (Haymarket 2011), New Forms of Worker Organization (PM Press 2014) and The Three Worlds of Social Democracy (Pluto Press 2016). Currently, he is working on land grabs and people’s resistance in India.
Module C: Refugees and Migrants as Subjects of Economics, Politics, and Gender Division
Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, Rabindra Bharati University & Honorary Director, Calcutta research Group
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Bionote: Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. His areas of research interest include: global politics, South Asian politics, and refugees, migration, democracy and human rights in the Global South. His publications include: The Rohingya in South Asia: People without a State (Routledge: Abingdon 2018), Sustainability of Rights after Globalisation (Sage: Thousand Oaks 2012), Internal Displacement in South Asia: The Relevance of UN Guiding Principles (Sage: Thousand Oaks 2005), Living on the Edge: Essays on the Chittagong Hill Tracts (SAFHR: Kathmandu 1997). He was a Visiting Professor, Panjab University, Chandigarh (2016), Visiting Fellow, Dayton Law School, Ohio, USA (2008, 2009) and Salzburg Fellow (1996). Professor Chaudhury has been contributing regularly to different news channels and news portals in India and abroad on Indian and South Asian politics over the last two decades.
Module D: Forced Migration, Law and Critical Jurisprudence
K.M. Parivelan, TISS, Mumbai & Calcutta Research Group Email: [email protected]
Bionote: K.M. Parivelan, an alumnus of Jawaharlal Nehru University, is currently teaching at School of Law, Rights and Constitutional Governance, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Previously, he was part of developing and launching the IFRC-TISS Online Global Disaster Management Programme at TISS. He worked at United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) facilitating the post-tsunami recovery process in India and UNHCR facilitating the voluntary repatriation of Sri Lankan refugees during the peace process. He also briefly taught at Pondicherry University, Puducherry. He is interested in themes such as international relations, access to justice, human rights and humanitarian issues, refugee law and statelessness issues, Disaster management and Environmental issues. He is guiding doctoral research scholars and teaching subjects like Law and Justice in Globalising World, International Humanitarian and Human Rights Laws, Disaster and Development, et al. at TISS. He has set up the Centre for Statelessness and Refugee Studies at TISS in collaboration with UNHCR since 2016. He is affiliated with MCRG since 2004.
Module D: Derogation of Rights of Refugees and Migrants, and Situations of Statelessness
Samir Kumar Das, University of Calcutta & Calcutta Research Group
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Bionote: Samir Kumar Das is Professor of Political Science and Director, Institute of Foreign Policy Studies at the University of Calcutta, Kolkata. Previously Vice-Chancellor of the University of North Bengal, and a Post-Doctoral Fellow (2005) of Social Science Research Council (South Asia Program), he also served as Adjunct Professor of Government at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Visiting Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Universite Sorbonne Paris Nord among some of his recent assignments. Two of his latest publications include The Making of Goddess Durga in Bengal: Art, Heritage and the Public (Singapore: Springer, 2021, co-edited) Migrations, Identities and Democratic Practices in India (London, Routledge, 2018, authored) among others.
Module F: Protection Ethics and Practices of Care and Solidarity