Global Protection of Migrants and Refugees-2020 -Disseminations

In association with

A Living Archive on COVID-19 and Migrant Workers in India
http://www.mcrg.ac.in/COVID_19_Migrant_Workers.html

The New Zealand India Research Institute invites you for our next webinar in the NZIRI webinar series, ‘Conversations in the days of pandemic’. In the next webinar to be held on 24 June, Wednesday 2020, 4.00-5.00 PM (NZ time), Professor Ranabir Samaddar (Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies at Calcutta Research Group) will discuss his recent edited book, Borders of an Epidemic: Covid-19 and Migrant Workers (2020) with Professor Sekhar Bandyopadhyay (Director, NZIRI) and Associate Professor Douglas Hill (University of Otago)… Click Here

“In an interview, Ranabir Samaddar, the director of the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, speaks to The Wire about the factors behind the migrants’ desperation to reach home, the dynamics of the visibility and invisibility of migrant labour and the boundary making exercises in economy and governance that produce migrants.” https://thewire.in/rights/interview-ranabir-samaddar-migrant-workers-invisible

“Very recently, Calcutta Research Group (CRG), under the editorship of Ranabir Samaddar, has brought out a collection of essays around the lives and politics of migrant workers in India, focusing on COVID-19 (Borders of an Epidemic: COVID-19and Migrant Workers). In a sense, the collection represents “The Present as History”. http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article9357.html