Distinguished Chair on Migration and Forced Migration Studies
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♦ Americans treated us like animals. Then they deported us to Haiti. CLICK HERE
♦ Rohingya Lodged In Jail For Seven Years Appeal to HC for Refugee Status CLICK HERE
♦ Six Markers of the Postcolonial Destiny of the Refugee Convention of 1951 CLICK HERE
♦ Jews of Kolkata: A slice of history CLICK HERE
♦ The Body Collector of Spain: When Migrants Die at Sea, He Gets Them CLICK HERE
♦ Explained: BSF powers and jurisdiction CLICK HERE
♦ In Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’, an insight into desperate lives of South Korea’s South Asian migrant workers CLICK HERE
♦ “I Have Massive Nightmares” – Ali Mohammadi on his life in the Moria refugee camp, his fear of being deported, and the pandemic situation CLICK HERE
♦ The U.S.’s History of Mistreating Haitian Migrants CLICK HERE
♦ The Tampa affair, 20 years on: the ship that capsized Australia’s refugee policy CLICK HERE
♦ Review: A Pandemic and the Politics of Life by Ranabir Samaddar – Telegraph India CLICK HERE
♦ Interview- ‘Workers Have Right to Relief’: Activist Whose 10-Day Dharna Forced Govt to Yield CLICK HERE
♦ Report Fact Finding Team on The condition of deported Indonesian migrants during the period of Covid-19 from Sabah, Malaysia to Indonesia (June 2019-September 2020) CLICK HERE
♦ BJP’s Authoritarian Population Policy Is in Sharp Contrast to Persuasive Strategies in the 1940s CLICK HERE
♦ The root cause of Central American migration? The United States CLICK HERE
♦ Activists Puncture Govt’s Claims on Steps It Took to Combat Migrant Workers’ Crisis CLICK HERE
♦ Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, “Atlas of Migration”, Third Edition (2020) CLICK HERE
♦ The Legend of Fat Mama – a film on the Chinese community in the city of Calcutta CLICK HERE
♦ Contrary to SC Ruling, Manipur HC Reading of ‘Non-Refoulement’ Recognises Right of Asylum Seekers CLICK HERE
♦ Estimated 4,000-6,000 refugees from Myanmar sought safety in India: UN CLICK HERE
♦ Without Access to Vaccines or Medicines, COVID Adds to Rohingya Refugees’ Woes CLICK HERE
♦ The Curious Case of Olu Oguibe’s Monument for Strangers and Refugees – Conceived as a tribute during ‘the refugee crisis’ of 2014/15, the American artist Olu Oguibe’s art of producing an obelisk against the backdrop of Europe battling humanitarian crisis, represented the fundamentals left unspoken under the flagship of democracy. Writer and art curator Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung reflects on the goodness of hospitality and care and the hypocrisy of nationhood, religion, democracy and the values of guiding culture alike in this article. The writer remains hopeful that the raising and dismantling of a monument dedicated to refugees, that has paved the way to a meeting point and selfie-backdrop for migrant communities – will now through its restoration lead to the exploration of issues of displacement, hospitality and compassion. CLICK HERE
♦ Purgatory at sea: Off the coast of Italy, cruise ships are being repurposed as holding pens for migrants rescued from the Mediterranean CLICK HERE
♦ Bharat-e Sanshodhito Naya Nagorikotto Ain O Paschim Bange Udbastu Sankoter Prekhyapot CLICK HERE
♦ Deported by Biden: a Vietnamese refugee separated from his family after decades in US CLICK HERE
♦ Supreme Court must rethink its order on deportation of Rohingya refugees CLICK HERE
♦ A lucrative border-industrial complex keeps the US border in constant ‘crisis’ CLICK HERE
♦ Why is the right obsessed with ‘defending’ borders? Because it sees citizenship as a commodity CLICK HERE
♦ Political Diary | Migrants back in national focus CLICK HERE
♦ Raghu Rai’s rediscovered negatives relive the horrors of B’desh’s liberation CLICK HERE
♦ Podcast: A Cultural Battle Is Being Fought in Every Village in West Bengal CLICK HERE
♦ Refoulement, Rohingya and a Refugee Policy for India CLICK HERE
♦ The global refugee protection regime is broken. Here’s how to fix it CLICK HERE
♦ SC ruling on Rohingya is against India’s commitments to international law CLICK HERE
♦ Special Issue and Discussions: Vulnerable Populations in Japan under Covid-19: A lull in the storm 
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♦ India can’t be capital of illegal migrants, govt tells SC, justifies move on Rohingya CLICK HERE
♦ Myanmar in turmoil, let in refugees: Mizoram CM writes to PM CLICK HERE
♦ Real-life ‘Terminal’: How People Manage to Live at Airports for Months and Years CLICK HERE
♦ Indian Coast Guard Asks Bangladesh to ‘Take Back’ 81 Rohingya People Found at Sea CLICK HERE
♦ The first edition of the toolbox on migration in peace policy and practice – a result of a Joint Learning Process on Peacebuilding & Migration CLICK HERE
♦ “Migrant Workers Solidarity Network” CLICK HERE
♦ “Unprecedented Exodus’: Why are Migrant Workers Leaving the UK?” CLICK HERE
♦ “Stories of how refugees in Asia are finding ways to not only survive but thrive as they await resettlement, and the communities that are helping them get back on their feet” CLICK HERE
♦ “Who holds the microphone?’ Crisis-affected women’s voices on gender-transformative changes in humanitarian settings: Experiences from Bangladesh, Colombia, Jordan and Uganda” CLICK HERE
♦ How did Indian immigrants to the US become a ‘model minority’? CLICK HERE
♦ Causing ‘Profound’ Trauma, Trump Administration Detained Record-Breaking 70,000 Children in 2019 CLICK HERE
♦ Hundreds of Rohingya Refugees Stuck at Sea With ‘Zero Hope’ CLICK HERE
♦ Principles of Protection of Migrants, Refugees, and Displaced Persons in times of COVID 19 CLICK HERE
♦ Migrant Workers in “The Present Time of Chaos” CLICK HERE
♦ Migrant workers’ rush chokes transit points in the East: Where do we go, what do we do now? CLICK HERE
♦ Obhabe ghar cherechilum, phirlum nisha hoye, parijeyo sramikder ghare ghare ha ha kar…A Bengali Article CLICK HERE
♦ Migrant Worker Dies After Walking 200 Km to Agra From Delhi CLICK HERE
♦ 22 Migrant Workers, Kin Have Died Trying to Return Home Since the Lockdown Started CLICK HERE
♦ Sanitation workers – the wages of ingratitude CLICK HERE
♦ West Bengal migrant labourers who returned to village quarantine themselves on tree branches CLICK HERE
♦ Hunger Can Kill Us Before the Virus’: Migrant Workers on the March During Lockdown CLICK HERE
♦ Despite Maharashtra lockdown, labourers rushing to leave Mumbai, Pune in jampacked buses face coronavirus threat CLICK HERE
♦ Homeless with no income, migrant labourers wish they had left Delhi before the lockdown CLICK HERE
♦ Coronavirus: India’s lockdowns are a matter of life and death for its 450 million informal workers CLICK HERE
♦ India’s poorest ‘fear hunger may kill us before coronavirus’ CLICK HERE
♦ India lockdown: Rajasthan migrant workers in Gujarat leave for homes on foot CLICK HERE
♦ Coronavirus: ‘Why has Modi done this?’ Rajasthan workers walk back home from Gujarat CLICK HERE
♦ Karnataka: Migrant Workers Taken to Camps for ‘Verification Drive’, 500 Detained CLICK HERE
♦ Stop ignoring us: Rohingya refugees demand role in running camps CLICK HERE
♦ Letter from Beijing: Love in the Time of COVID-19, 2020 CLICK HERE
♦ Sadako Ogata, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, 1927-2019, November 2019 CLICK HERE
♦ Australia’s Shame by J.M. Coetzee,The New York Review of Books, September 26, 2019 CLICK HERE
♦ Malaysia and Bangladesh look to islands for refugee settlements CLICK HERE || CLICK HERE
♦ ATLAS OF Facts and figures about people on the move MIGRATION CLICK HERE
♦ Greece: 39 Months at City Plaza for Refugees Ends, July 15,2019 CLICK HERE
♦ Rape, Malnutrition, Depression: Life in Bangladesh Rohingya Camps, the quint, July 15, 2019 CLICK HERE
♦ NRC: A Major Storm is brewing, the Telegraph, July 15, 2019 CLICK HERE
♦ An article on the Life Saver – ORS by Dipankar Bhattacharya published in Anandabazar Patrika on 16 June 2019. English translation follows… CLICK HERE
♦ In 40 Days, 60,000 Child Migrants Were Placed Into Concentration Camps CLICK HERE
♦ Detained Kids at the Border Have to Care for Other Kids – The Atlantic CLICK HERE
♦ Decentring the ‘Global’: A South Asian Migration Research Agenda LIDC Migration Leadership Team Global Migration Conversation Delhi, 22-23 May 2018 CLICK HERE
♦ Released on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ‘The State of Refugees and Displaced People in Europe’ is a summary of Refugee Rights Europe’s key field research findings from 2017-2018 CLICK HERE
♦ Naxalbari and Popular Movements: A Conversation with Ranabir Samaddar CLICK HERE
♦ Decision on the ” Prosecution’s Request for Ruling on Jurisdiction under Article 19(3) of the Statute”, September 6, 2018 CLICK HERE
♦ Capitalism thrives on the immigrant labour economy (and also keeps refugee conditions precarious), Scroll, July 27, 2018 CLICK HERE
♦ Internal Displacement in Asia due to Natural Disaster, The Jakarta Post, August 9, 2018 CLICK HERE
♦“It is easy to be xenophobic, it is harder to be humanitarian” by Meghna Guhathakurta, South Asia@LSE, August 1, 2018 CLICK HERE
♦”A Migrant Boy Rejoins His Mother, but He’s not the Same” by Miriam Jordan, The New York Times, July 31, 2018 CLICK HERE
♦ An article by Ravi Palat on Meddlesome and More, The Hindu, July 23, 2018 CLICK HERE
♦ An article by Ravi Palat on Decoding Trump’s Attack on Europe, The Hindu, July 18, 2018 CLICK HERE
♦ An article by Anne Mccall and Ravi Palat on Police Brutality towards Children and the Separation of Children from their Parents are not new in the U.S., The Hindu, June 28, 2018 CLICK HERE
♦ An article by Dr. Jeff Crisp on the new trend of premature repatriation of refugees by UNHCR. Dr. Crisp was formerly head of policy development and evaluation at UNHCR, and is currently affiliated to Chatham House and Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Center. CLICK HERE
♦ Humane migration: A manifesto for change; An international group of scholars working with people in forced migration got together last month and drafted a manifesto on humane migration as a way to creatively work towards positive change. CLICK HERE
♦ Building workers: Gujarat official blames Rohingiya “infiltration”; only 20 of 877 deaths compensated since 2008, Counterview, April 27, 2018. CLICK HERE
♦ Susan Martin’s new blog about the Trump Administration’s misuse of Barbara Jordan’s legacy to support its misguided Immigration policies is available on the Center for Migration Studies website. Martin served as the ED of the US Commission on Immigration Reform.CICK HERE
♦ The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 35/2017: .CICK HERE
♦ Discussing the Rohingya Refugee Crisis by BEN C. SOLOMON, HANNAH BEECH and DAMIEN CAVE OCT. 11, 2017: CLICK HERE
♦ Myanmar’s Crisis, Bangladesh’s Burden: Among the Rohingya Refugees Waiting for a Miracle by FELIZ SOLOMON / COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH November 23, 2017 CLICK HERE
♦ The ungrateful refugee: ‘We have no debt to repay’ – The Guardian, April 17, 2017 CLICK HERE
♦ “Broken Men in Paradise: The world’s refugee crisisknows no more sinister exercise in cruelty than Australia’s island prisons” CLICK HERE
♦ Paris Authorities order volunteers to stop distributing food to refugees CLICK HERE
♦ Black Athena Reloaded 1: Ideas as Migrants, Our Common Ghosts with Christian Nyampeta and Isaïe Nzeyimana- CLICK HERE
♦ The Apatride Society of the Political Others CLICK HERE
♦ The Society for The End of Necropolitics CLICK HERE
♦ The noospheric society- CLICK HERE
♦ The Society of Friends of Ulises Carrion- CLICK HERE
♦ The Cooperatives Society- CLICK HERE
♦ Report of the Special Reporter on the human rights of migrants on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility- CLICK HERE
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