Since the end of the Cold War, forced migration (involving refugee flows, internal displacement, forced migration of women and children, migration in the wake of human rights violations, natural and humanitarian disasters, statelessness, illegal immigration of vulnerable people, victims of border violence and militarization of borders, and sex and labor trafficking) has become an important phenomenon in the world. Legal regimes for the protection of victims of forced migration: refugees, displaced persons and stateless populations D.
Members of Faculty
Sanjukta Bhattacharya: Director, Center for Refugee Studies and Professor, Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Samir Kumar Das: Vice-Chancellor, North Bengal University, West Bengal and CRG Member Samita Sen: Vice-Chancellor, Diamond Harbor Women's University, South 24 Parganas Scott Furssedonn-Wood: British Deputy High Commissioner, Eastern India.
Partnerships, Supporting and Collaborating Institutions
Schedule
A short research presentation by CRG Ranabir Samaddar followed by an interactive session with a UNHCR representative. Report to PM on Eleventh Annual Orientation Course on Forced Migration by Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury, Course Coordinator, CRG.
Distance Education: Modules and Assignments
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Do countries in the South Asian region, especially Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan (the latter country, although not officially part of South Asia, increasingly participates in the political and economic reality of the SA region), provide unique examples of the blurring of the concepts of "refugee". The impact of climate change and environmental degradation in Coastal Regions of India: The Case of Orissa Citizen journalism has established itself in the social media space worldwide, even as traditional media have been slowly waking up to the phenomenon.
The media module will endeavor to sensitize social media activists to humanitarian disasters and human rights violations resulting from forced migration, and during the workshop establish a link between mainstream journalists working on forced migration issues and social media activists. Internet journalism will also be discussed within the framework of human rights and humanitarian protection.
Media and Forced Migration
The second session of the day was chaired by Rajat Roy, Member, CRG and Senior Journalist. The three presentations of this session perform the important task of highlighting the limits as well as possibilities of social media. The first session of the Third Day (December 13) was about human rights, humanitarian tasks and social media in India's northeast.
The three issues that emerged from the discussions in this session were: political embeddedness of social media, social media and its actors, and access to and reach of social media. From the very beginning, it was pointed out that social media could be a useful tool in the North East of India due to the lack of coverage in the mainstream media due to the existing revenue model. Currently, he is the managing director of Panos South Asia and is also the editor of The Hindu.
Currently, she is also serving as the Director of the Indigenous Women's Resource Centre, Shillong. He is the author of Insurgent Crossfire: Northeast India and Troubled Periphery: Crisis of India's Northeast.
Field Visit
Interactive Sessions
The speaker spoke of the two UN conventions on statelessness which India has not signed. Limanochet Jamir presented on "The Study of Migrants in Nagaland with Special Reference to Eastern Nagas vis-à-vis Illegal Immigrants". Module C: Legal regimes for the protection of the victims of forced migration: Refugees, IDPs and the stateless population groups.
In his study, Rajkumar talks about the current situation of forced migration in the South Asian region, the rights of urban migrants and the UNHCR's urban refugee policy. The case of the Lhotshampa refugees from Bhutan,” Lopita said India's role in the Bhutanese refugee crisis has remained in doubt. According to the treaty of friendship between India and Bhutan, this was one of the main causes of the silence in India.
He presented 3 project case studies from Hyderabad city i) Microsoft Project Manikonda, ii) Rajiv Gandhi International Airport and iii). Sayantani Chaterjee presented "Impact of Climate Change on Resources and Migration Patterns: A Case Study of the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve".
The introductory session was conducted by Prasanta Ray and at the end of the session, Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury, the course coordinator gave vote of thanks. Furssedonn-Wood spoke with a few words, congratulated the participants on the successful completion of the workshop and awarded certificates to the participants of the media workshop. He expressed his satisfaction that the British Deputy High Commissioner was able to cooperate with the CRG in the implementation of the media part of the course.
Schodder then presented the certificates to the participants of the main course in recognition of their successful completion. This could also be called the first mass contact program in India that utilizes the potential of social media to the fullest extent possible. At the same time, the positive aspect of the new media must also be emphasized: its role in the Libyan crisis of 2011 is an example, which led to the safe return of thousands of Indians.
The speaker believed that there are many challenges on the way to this, including the digital divide that needs to be bridged. At the conclusion of the workshop Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury gave vote of thanks.
Evaluation
Some participants had attended previous courses and were specifically engaged to add their insights to the discussions as they continued their work on various aspects of forced migration. Although the participants were a vibrant group representing five countries from the subcontinent, they did not represent all countries. The evaluation of the course is based on: (i) the observation of the program by an external evaluator, and (ii) a questionnaire that the external evaluator distributed to the participants, asking for their feedback on specific aspects of the program.
That's one of the great things about the orientation course: participants learn how to prepare a presentation, get feedback on their work, and also learn from each other. Given the fact that most of the participants were academics, researchers or involved in project work, the methodology (as some noted) was something that would help them focus on their subjects in a more organized way. The topics of the lectures were from eminent persons and were highly appreciated by the participants in their form of comments.
The result of the distance segment was visible in the participants' basic understanding of the subject, their stimulated interest and their preparation for the course. The fact that all the participants attended all sessions and interacted throughout proves my point.
Outcome of the Course
Secondly, CRG was able to build a sustained collaboration with MAKAIAS, Kolkata by co-hosting a special session on Borders, Sates and Statelessness during the course. In South Asia, CRG is grateful to International Organization for Migration (IOM), Nepal and Research Initiative Bangladesh (RIB) for nominating participants to the Course. Expanding network and visibility of South Asian experiences and dimensions of forced migration in national and international forums.
The course owes its success to the strength of its faculty members who hold important positions in international forums such as International Association for the Study of Forced Migration where Paula Banerjee, president of CRG and the former course coordinator, was elected as the president of the association. in 2013. CRG hosted the 14th IASFM conference in January 2013 not only to showcase its own research on forced migration, but to create a platform for an interdisciplinary exchange and communication to debate and discuss the research priorities and stimulate policy issues on forced migration in South Asia. Due to the success of CRG's course on forced migration and its contribution to the field of forced migration studies, Refugee Research Network and Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University has recognized CRG as one of its partner institutions.
CRG has produced and collected various documents that need to be archived for future research and advocacy work on forced migration. The Center for Information on Forced Migration in South Asia, one of the latest developments under the auspices of the Winter Course on Forced Migration, was established to facilitate further research on forced migration.
Research Segments and Follow up Programme
The partition of India, which had multiple layers of meaning for the people of the subcontinent, represents perhaps the most contested discursive terrain of South Asian historiography. As for Bengal, it has been argued by some scholars that the Hindu bhadralok elite, under the patronage of the Congress and Hindu Mahasabha combine, orchestrated a campaign for partition and creation of a Hindu majority province in West Bengal. The "truth" of the partition lies in the violence it produced; the scholars therefore sought to unravel how this violence was 'conceptualised and remembered by those who lived through partition - as victims, aggressors or bystanders'.
A series of studies have followed since then, focusing primarily on refugees in Punjab and Bengal, exploring their experiences, their struggle for citizenship, the politics surrounding their rehabilitation, and the impact of memories of partition violence on communal relations in the subcontinent. CRG has planned to publish a book on research methodology that includes all the thematic papers presented by the leading faculty members of the course. In addition, other selected Orientation course faculty members will be invited to contribute to this volume.
Publication of some of the participants' good work in Refugee Watch As in previous years, this year the course teachers have selected some of the good work from the participants to create an extensive repository of research articles for the journal. Refugee Guard. An offshoot of the special media workshop of the orientation course will be a book on social media, citizen journalism, human rights and humanitarian protection.
CRG Team
Advisory Committee
Alumni of Winter Course
