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Essays

  • Public Health, Migrant Workers, and a Global Pandemic: Towards a New Politics of Life by Iman Kumar Mitra
  • Pandemics, Public Health, and Sanitation Workers in Mumbai: Crisis of Work and Life by Mouleshri Vyas & Manish K. Jha
  • Trust and Everyday Healthcare at a Resettlement Colony in Delhi by Ishita Dey
  • In Search of Other Worlds: The Dalit in De Facto Statelessness in Avinash Dolas’s “The Refugee” by Debojoy Chanda
  • In Search of Healing: Healthcare Inequities and Internal Migration in India by Deeksha
  • Conflict and Public Health Services in Suchetgarh, a Border Village of Jammu Region by Marvi Slathia

A View from Turkey :Refugees and Migrants in Turkey: Differential Status and Access to Healthcare by Gonca Savas Dogan
Report :A Panel Discussion on Itinerant Situations in Art and Literature: A Report by Samata Biswas
Book Review: Book Review by Anup Shekhar Chakraborty

Essays

  • The Politics of Humanitarianism: Some Considerations by Shibashis Chatterjeey
  • Questions of Ethics, Pandemic and the Migrant Worker by Paula Banerjee
  • Pandemic, Protection and Politics of Mobility by Nasreen Chowdhory
  • Wounded Identities: Untold Stories of the Wasteland by Roli Misra and Nidhi Tewari
  • Undocumented Immigrants in Assam: Understanding the Jurisprudence in Past, Present and Future by Anjuman Ara Begum
  • Night Shelters for Homeless Population in Visakhapatnam, India: Understanding the Functions and Facilities by M Abraham and S Narayana Swamy
  • How Protected are the Refugees: A Comparative Study of the Contemporary States of Germany and India in Light of the Geneva Convention, 1951 by Kusumika Ghosh

Review Essay: Exploring Differential Inclusion and Exclusion in Migration Studies: Definitions, Theories and Evidence from the Field by Reha Atakan Cetin

Book Review :Book Review by Samata Biswas

From the Editor’s Desk by Paula Banerjee
Special Issue on SANDD

  • South Asia Network for Displacement and Development (SANDD) by Liza Schuster & Saqib Jafarey
  • A Social Mapping of Displacement in India by Shatabdi Das
  • Climate Change and Migration: Dialogues with Community Stakeholders in Skardu, Gilgit-Baltistan by Noor Sanauddin
  • IDPs in Afghanistan: Some Reflections by Reza Hussaini
  • Mapping Vulnerabilities in Bangladesh: An Indicative Report Based on Household Surveys and Stakeholders’ Dialogues by Ruhi Naz

Report on a Webinar: Covid-19 in South Asia: Regional Perspectives on Vulnerabilities and Dispossession by Sukanya Bhattacharya
Regular Features

Essays

  • Colonialism, Resource Crisis and Forced Migration by Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty
  • At the Threshold of Dreadful Delight: Migrant Male Sex-Workers and Transgressive Sexuality in Caleb Carr’s The Alienist by Preeshita Biswas

Reflection

  • Calcutta: Migrant City by Samata Biswas
  • Book Review by Himadri Chatterjee
  • The Global Compact of Refugees: A Viewpoint of Global South by Nasreen Chowdhory & Shamna Thacham Poyil
  • Laws of Asylum and Protection:
  • The Indian Experience in a South Asian Context by Simon Behrman
  • The Imagined Terrain: Return, Citizenship and Justice in the Eyes of Rohingya Refugee Women by Meghna Guhathakurta
  • Labour in Borderland: Ichhamati River in North 24 Parganas by Shatabdi Das
  • Neo-liberalism, Migration, and the Rise of Populism in the Contemporary World by Ravi Arvind Palat
  • Reflections on Auto-Ethnography
  • Memories of the Forgotten by Ranabir Samaddar
  • Food Security and Forced Migration: An Overview by Santi Sarkar
  • Discursive Bias towards Skilled Migration in Brazil during the Workers Party Administrations: Influence of the Knowledge-Based Economy
  • Paradigm? by Janaina Galvão & Roberto Uebel
  • The Idea of Protection: Norms and Practice of Refugee Management in India by Nasreen Chowdhory, Shamna T.P & Meghna Kajla
  • Cultural Identity in Exile: Challenges Faced by Tibetan Refugees in India by Nilofer
  • Caring for the ‘Evacuees’ and ‘Destitutes’? Governmentality of Migration in Late Colonial Calcutta by Aditi Mukherjee
  • Partition and Gender in the East Refugee Women of Bengal by Sutapa Bhattacharya
  • Challenges of Sustainable Livelihood for Migrants in the Raniganj Coalfield by Shatabdi Das
  • Rohingyas: The Emergence of a Stateless Population by Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury & Ranabir Samaddar
  • Rohingya Refugee Crisis and Ethno-Religious Conflict in South EastAsia: From Burma to Bangladesh and Back by Nergis Canefe
  • ‘Moving Out’ and the Social Imaginaries at play: Construing the trends in Migrations in Darjeeling Hills and Plains (2005-2015) by Anup Shekhar Chakraborty
  • Strangers in our ‘Zo Jerusalem’: Xenophobia and the Cultural Subjects in Northeast India by Lallian Thangsing
  • Re-examining Typologies in Environmental Change and Population Displacement: Need for Contextual Understanding by Bidhan Kanti Das
  • Climate Change Adaptation Actions in Bangladesh: A Critical Review by Sanjoy Biswas & Tahmina Sanzida Shahid
  • The SEZ Policy and National Policy for Relocation and Rehabilitation 2007 (NPRR): Debate in India-Its critique by Jasmine Y. Damle

Commentary

  • Past Conflicts and the ‘Refugeeization’ of the Rohingya People: A Reappraisal by Rachel D’ Silva & Sudeep Basu
  • Exploring the Environment and Migration Nexus in the Brahmaputra Valley by Murchana Roychoudhury
  • Book Review by Samata Biswas
  • Borders of Labour and Refugee Economies by Ranabir Samaddar
  • Freedom under Control: Jurisdiction, Human Rights, and “Freedom of the Sea” by Tommaso Manfredini
  • Remaking Caste and Work: Calcutta Municipal Methars and Their Strikes in 1928 by Tanika Sarkar
  • Criminalizing the Migrant: Street Carriers and the Colonial State in 19th-20th Century Calcutta and Bengal by Somdatta Chakraborty
  • The Small Town in India: ‘Subaltern and Beyond by Ritam Sengupta
  • A Colonial, Modern and Urban Interface: Jaffa and the Politics of Exclusion by Priya Singh
  • Commentary : Need of a Gender Centric Approach under Resettlement Policy by Gargi Sengupta
  • Book Review by Samata Biswas
  • Borders of Labour and Refugee Economies by Ranabir Samaddar
  • Freedom under Control: Jurisdiction, Human Rights, and “Freedom of the Sea” by Tommaso Manfredini
  • Remaking Caste and Work: Calcutta Municipal Methars and Their Strikes in 1928 by Tanika Sarkar
  • Criminalizing the Migrant: Street Carriers and the Colonial State in 19th-20th Century Calcutta and Bengal by Somdatta Chakraborty
  • The Small Town in India: ‘Subaltern and Beyond by Ritam Sengupta
  • A Colonial, Modern and Urban Interface: Jaffa and the Politics of Exclusion by Priya Singh
  • Commentary : Need of a Gender Centric Approach under Resettlement Policy by Gargi Sengupta
  • Book Review by Samata Biswas
  • The Flipside of the Integration Question: Guest Worker Regimes and Temporary Circular/Managed Migration in History by Mahua Sarkar
  • On the Creation and Accommodation of the Misery of the World: The Case of the Sans-Papiers by Simon Behrman
  • The Marginal Refugee in the ‘Migrant Crisis’: Crisis, Othering and Border Walls in Mainstream Western Media Discourse by Manish Jha & M. Ibrahim Wani
  • The Migrant as a Political Object: “Guests” in Turkey, EU Debates and the Middle Eastern Conundrum by Anita Sengupta
  • The Shifting Logics of Reorganisation: Defining Identities and their Borders in Colonial Sylhet by Debarati Bagchi
  • Changes in Border Policy and Border Identities: Post LBA Transitions in the Former Bangladeshi Enclaves in Cooch Behar, India by Anuradha Sen Mookerjee
  • Book Review by Pamela Philipose
  • Introduction: Syrians are Coming? Reframing the Syrian Refugee Crisis by Nergis Canefe
  • Politics and Policy: Syrian Refugees and the European Union by Priya Singh
  • Guests to Neighbours: The Difficulty of Naming Syrians in Turkey by Pınar Uyan Semerci &Emre Erdoğan
  • The Politics of Mobility on Lesvos, Greece: A Critical Scholarly View from The Beach, The Camp, and The City by Kathryn E. T. Dennler
  • Syrian Refugees’ Reception in Southern Europe: The Shifting Content of the Right to Asylum in Lesvos, Sicily and Melilla by Chiara Denaro
  • Performing the Migration by Belma Kurtişoğlu, Selda Öztürk & Hussain Hajj
  • Migration as a Necessity: Contextualising the European Response to the Syrian Exodus by Nergis Canefe
  • Commentary on Canada’s Reception of Syrian Refugees by Howard Adelman
  • Book Review by Meghna Guhathakurta
  • Editorial: On Gender, Development, and Resistance in South Asia by Tiina Seppälä
  • Resisting Borders: Mobilities, Gender, and Bodies Crossing the Mediterranean by Anitta Kynsilehto
  • Gender, Development Induced Displacement, and Resistance: Women Uprooted by River Erosion in West Bengal and Bangladesh by Sreya Sen
  • This Place is not ours: Stateless Women and the Right to Citizenship in Nepal by Roopshree Joshi
  • Interrogating Political Society through Displacement and Vulnerability Risks through Comparative Case Studies in India by Nanda Kishor M S
    Special Article
  • Brus (Reangs) in Mizoram: The Unresolved Crises by Shyamalendu Mazumdar
  • A Lost Population? East India Company and Arkanese ‘Refugees’ in Chittagong by Anandaroop Sen
  • Becoming ‘Local’: Muslims and the Politics of the ‘Local’ and the ‘Non-local’ in Darjeeling Hills by Anup Shekhar Chakraborty
  • Partitions and the Sisyphean Making of Peoples by A. Dirk Moses
  • The Precarious Migrant: Issues of Ecology, Politics, and Survival by Ranabir Samaddar
  • Pluralisms of Law: India’s Place in the International Refugee Protection Regime by Jessica De Shanti
  • Book Review by Snehashish Mitra
  • Introduction by Anita Sengupta
  • Post-Colonial State and Violence: Rethinking the Middle East and North Africa outside the Blindfold of Area Studies by Nergis Canefe
  • A Syrian Exodus: The Case of Lebanon and Jordan by Priya Singh
  • ‘Putting the Local Back in Uyghur History’: The Uyghur and Dungan Migrants of Central Asia by Suchandana Chatterjee
  • Returnees in Afghanistan: Impediments to Reintegration by Arpita Basu Roy
  • Marginality and Migration: The Plight of Persecuted Religious Minorities of Afghanistan by Anwesha Ghosh
  • International Workshop on ‘Gender, Development, Resistance’, 7 to 8 June 2015, University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland: A Report -Report-I
  • Research Workshop on ‘Rohingyas in India: Birth of a Stateless Community’, August 13-14, 2015, Darjeeling: A Report – Report-II
  • Book Review by Sreya Sen
  • Accessing Refuge: India and its 1971 Refugee “Problem” by Peter Grbac
  • The Plight of Dwelling: East-Bengali Refugees and the Struggle for Land in Kolkata by Annemiek Prins
  • Legal Brief on Statelessness Law in the Indian Context by Charlotte-Anne Malischewski
  • Reducing Statelessness: A New Call for India by Suvro Prosun Sarker
  • Women in Post-Conflict Nepal: Engendering the Issues of Women IDPs in National Regimes by Gitta Shrestha
  • In an Enclave Existence: Israel’s Palestinians by Priya Singh
  • India-Bangladesh Cross Border Migration: A Human Rights Discourse by Vikash Kumar
  • Report on ‘Gender, Empowerment and Conflict: A Conference on South Asia’ -Report-I
  • A Report on a one day Workshop on ‘Bengal-Bangladesh Border: Humanitarian Issues’ -Report-II
  • Book Review by Kaustubh Mani Sengupta
  • Marginalization and Exclusion: Politics of Non-citizen Rights in Postcolonial South Asia by Nasreen Chowdhory
  • Reality of Protection: Case of Urban Refugees Residing in Nepal by Laxman Lamichhane
  • Methodological good fit; Limitations of Quantitative Methods in Forced Migration Studies by Mohamed Munas
  • Right to Return: The Tibetan and Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal by Amrita Limbu
  • Borders and Movements: People in the Borderlands of Central Asia by Anita Sengupta
  • Tibetans in India and Citizenship Rights: The Legal Battle by Shuvro Prosun Sarker
  • Reflections on the Decade of Forced Migration Studies-Report
  • Book Review by Samata Biswas
  • Proliferation of Borders and the Right to Escape by Sandro Mezzadra
  • IDP resettlement policies in post conflict Sri Lanka: Assessing the evidence-based context of the resettlement process with particular emphasis on IDP participation by Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen
  • The East Bengali Muslims in Assam and Rohingyas of Myanmar: Comparative Perspectives of Migration, Exclusion, Statelessness by Subir Bhaumik
  • Bastuhara, the Dispossessed by Nishi Pulugurtha
  • The Ethics of Recognition: Bearing Witness to Human Rights’ Violations in Australian Detention Centre Narratives by Maheyrin Chowdhury
  • A Report on the 14th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM 14) by Report
  • Book Review by Sarvani Gooptu