Module C: Neo-liberalism, migrant labor and the burden of the epidemic; (formerly: Neo-Liberalism, Immigrant Economies and Labour), coordinators - Arup Sen and Iman Mitra. Module E: Legal protection regimes and the time of the pandemic; (formerly: Asylum and Protection Laws) coordinator- Oishik Sircar. What actually explains the sudden visibility of migrant workers at a time of public health crisis.
Burdens of an Epidemic' analyzes the issue of migrant labor from different dimensions of the epidemic. This question brings us to the heart of the rights framework, which is the issue of justice. Second, studying the insurance schemes intended for the rural poor and their effectiveness in the lives of migrant workers.
The other important question concerns the insecurity of migrant workers at the time of the outbreak of COVID-19.
VISITING FELLOWSHIPS
Today, migration, refugees and internally displaced persons have become a serious matter for the world that most countries in the world are struggling with this phenomenon. But some of the representatives of IDPs in the various provinces highlighted this that most IDPs suffer from depression, anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorders or face poverty and lack of jobs and source of daily livelihood. However, the donors are trying their best to solve the IDP problems in the country, but they are facing some problems.
Moreover, the conflict, war, climate change and natural disasters become force factors for increasing IDPs in the country. One of the main partners of the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations is the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA) for supporting IDPs in Afghanistan. In recent years the cases and incidents are increasing but the more of a political will and other political issues among the decision makers of the country have eased the situation for life danger of IDPs and returnees.
Is there an official framework, strategy and policy available in Afghanistan to address the problems of the country's displaced persons? If so, to what extent are the policies and migration laws helpful for the management and reintegration of displaced persons in the country? Given the country's security situation and the increase in natural disasters, how do MoRR and relevant donors support displaced people in terms of access to services and basic needs?
Niloy Ranjan Biswas is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at the University of Dhaka. His thesis examines the implications of the role of state elites, local civil society organizations and international actors on civil security management in transitional and challenging environments with a particular focus on the Bangladesh Police Reform Program (PRP). This study therefore aims to examine the possibilities of the “intersectionality” of identity, culture and politics in the context of forced Rohingya migration and their relations with host communities in Bangladesh.
PUBLIC LECTURES
Shyamalendu Majumdar, Member Secretary of CRG has taken the lead to organize two such public lectures in the form of webinars - the first was held in association with Netaji Satabarshiki Mahavidyalaya. The purpose of the webinar was to bring together teachers, students, researchers and academics to start the discussion on a very common but often overlooked phenomenon of human migration in an integrated world, especially one caught in the middle of a global pandemic. The webinar was joined by 83 participants consisting of assistant professors, associate professors, research scholars and students from various colleges, universities and institutes.
We had participants from Delhi, Tripura, Sikkim and various districts of West Bengal, apart from Kolkata, whose queries, questions and opinions contributed to the success of the webinar. He then raised a very important question about the protection of IDPs as they are often left at the mercy of the respective governments in the absence of international conventions for their protection. He concluded his discussion by making the audience think how the concept of care and morality intertwined to further increase the complexity of the issue of protecting these unfortunate masses.
She emphasized the fact that the globalized world has not only facilitated the movement of people, but has also facilitated the movement of diseases at faster rates. She sums up her discussion by briefly adding that despite everything, human migration will continue as the global order depends on free labor, but with the current trend of stricter immigration laws being enacted by various governments around the globe, underground migration will increase. and will be checked. by traffickers resulting in further difficulties for migrants in the future. The webinar was further enriched by relevant questions raised by the participants during the Q&A round.
The participants sought the opinion of the speakers on the limited coverage of migrants' plight in the mainstream media and also whether the sudden spotlight on the migrant workers in Indian media and social platforms can have any credible effect on the socio-political fabric. He mentioned that the success of the webinar rested on the fact that through the discussion it wove the concepts of migration and pandemic into broader dimensions of nation-state, female migration, media and others. Earlier, CRG had planned a 1-day workshop on the issues surrounding National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Darjeeling Hills of North Bengal.
ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING
Protection, refugee and citizenship, concepts of 'foreigner' and 'other', the media, the ethics of care and protection, refugee work, resource issues and discrimination based on race, religion and gender in the protection issue should be addressed as topics of the research agenda. With the outbreak of the pandemic and the following lockdown, planned international and domestic workshops have been cancelled. The CRG has planned to allocate a portion of the money, as reported in the Annual Research Agenda, to research on migrants and public health and to facilitate research publications.
The latest issue of Refugee Watch was published in January 2020 and can be found at http://www.mcrg.ac.in/ci.asp. The print edition was suspended due to the nationwide lockdown and will be released as soon as printing facilities resume. The next two issues are in the pipeline with the June 2020 issue now being drafted.
Paula Banerjee is exploring the possibility of collaboration between Refugee Watch and SAAND – where she will become editor-in-chief and possibly bring in co-editors from other South Asian countries. Refugee Watch Online (available at https://refugeewatchonline.wordpress.com/) has hired its first group of interns and continues to produce brief commentaries, reviews, reports, and op-eds. The process of creating a common website for Refugee Watch Online and Refugee Watch (the magazine) is underway.
TEACHERS’ WORKSHOP
AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIAL FOR INSTRUCTIONAL PURPOSES
Its focus is on material related to issues such as migration and forced migration, autonomy, popular movements, labor including transit work, and urban studies. The process to subscribe to Project Muse has begun and will be completed shortly. In addition, select a list of similar holding platforms (such as ADB, World Bank reports, etc., which are cheapest or allow free subscription) will be prepared soon and CRG will subscribe to them as much as possible. The library section of the website has the relevant information - http://www.mcrg.ac.in/log_library.htm.
In March, the CRG decided to prepare a "Living Archive" using material from the media and other sources about migrant workers against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent closures. So now there is a new section on the website (http://www.mcrg.ac.in/COVID_19_Migrant_Workers.html) which has annotated information, news, photos and videos covering the migrant worker crisis during the quarantine. This is becoming CRG's new digital resource, aimed at a broad audience at colleges and universities, winter workshop participants.
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MEDIA SEGMENT Media Workshop
A project should be taken up to prepare a handbook on media and migration and forced migration (which will include relevant laws and international agreements), the outline of the handbook should be discussed at the workshop and the task of preparing such a handbook assigned to the appropriate person/persons . The lectures would shed light on selected critical aspects of the issue of migration and forced migration as well as the practice of the media on the issues in question. First, by analyzing site-specific migration, for example, the migration pattern and the coverage of the related topics will be different in different places.
Fifth, social media as a tool for migration research can be an important point of study. According to him, the focus of the research should be on the connection between the media, regionalism and national politics. The sample text must be attached to the application along with a link.
Delhi: Almost 60 percent of the working population in India's capital consists of workers, mostly from UP and Bihar. They also represent the vote bank of the Aam Aadmi Party as the AAP government in Delhi has done a lot of work for the poor in the education and health sectors. Background: Policy makers are well aware of the poor housing prospects of migrant labour.
An extended lockdown (on the 60th day on May 23) to contain the spread of the Covid-19 outbreak has resulted in a catastrophic situation for migrant workers in India. My report will focus on its implementation and implications, in addition to the labor compliance rules and key laws contained therein. Shram Kalyan Nidhi Adhiniyam drafts a constitution covering the welfare funds of the labor force.
The report will further examine the status of migrant workers' access to the public health system in the wake of the pandemic. Among them, the plight of migrant workers has caught our attention in significant ways.
