This year's research program also deals with the pandemic, climate disaster and precarious work conditions. These meetings were organized to guide participants in developing their papers based on previously submitted abstracts. The resolution also seeks to prevent the forced return of refugees and asylum seekers.
Research Briefs
Long 2020
Against this background, this will be an overall examination of some of the salient aspects of the year 2020 in the light of long historical trends. With this as a background, this research seeks to investigate how the figure of the migrant appears in the campaigns of various political parties and other organizations during elections. It will also study election metaphors and the use of the language of violence, racism and masculinity in the election campaigns.
Public Lecture/ Webinars/ Panel Discussions
In the first part of the lecture, the concept of border and its contradictory implications as a cartographic fence of demarcation and the role of border forces and border control points were discussed. The last part of the lecture dealt with the topic of "borders, mobility and our history". Meghna Guhathakurta's lecture on "Fleeing and Staying: A Nuanced View of the 1971 Bangladesh Refugee Crisis" was organized by the Calcutta Research Group in collaboration with the Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung.
Sixth Annual Research and Orientation Workshop and Conference
Concept Note
అధ్యక్షత: సబ్యసాచి బసు రే చౌదరి, రవీంద్ర భారతి విశ్వవిద్యాలయం & CRG, భారతదేశం 20:00: ధన్యవాదాలు ఓటు, రజత్ కాంతి సుర్, CRG, భారతదేశం. మాడ్యూల్ ట్యూటర్స్: రణబీర్ సమద్దర్, CRG, ఇండియా& అరూప్ కుమార్ సేన్, సెరాంపూర్ కాలేజ్ & CRG, ఇండియా. 8:00-9:00 pm: సబ్యసాచి బసు రే చౌదరి, రవీంద్రభారతి విశ్వవిద్యాలయం & CRG, భారతదేశం ద్వారా పాల్గొనేవారితో విందు చర్చ; & పౌలా బెనర్జీ, కలకత్తా విశ్వవిద్యాలయం & CRG, భారతదేశం.
2:00-3:30 pm): Perspectives on Long 2020
9:15am-9:30am: Welcome Address by Shyamalendu Majumdar, Sivanath Sastri & CRG College, India Session I): Inaugural Lecture on “Climate Disaster, Migration and Responses from Below” by Sanjay Chaturvedi, South Asian University, India , & CRG, India Chair: Samata Biswas, Sanskrit College & University & CRG, India. Session IIA: Workshop Report Presentations for Modules A, B and C Moderator: Rajesh Kharat, University of Mumbai and CRG, India. Session IIB: Workshop Report Presentations for Modules D, E, & F Moderator: Rajat Kanti Sur, CRG, India& Shatabdi Das, CRG, India 1:00-2:00 pm: Lunch.
9:00-10:30 am): “Law and Protection Strategies: Presentation of a Report on
1:30-3:00 pm): Panel discussion on “Seventy years of the Refugee Convention of 1951”
The Politics and the Practices of Refugee Participation in the Governance of the Global Refugee Regime”. Rez Gardi in the second section deals in detail with the mechanism of the refugee participation and how to deal practically with the refugees. It officially started with the formal introduction of the theme by the module chair Nasreen Chowdhory.
Both mentors referred to Hannah Arendt's contribution to the understanding of the refugee crisis, especially after the Second World War. The importance of law and critical jurisprudence and legal paradoxes in the context of contemporary mixed and mass flows of refugees was highlighted by Prof. Ranabir Samaddar asked the speaker if we were seeing a moment in the division of the ethical world.
Many workers were settled in border villages in the north as a buffer. The paper further shed light on the Taliban's role in creating greater unemployment and spoke to these and the aforementioned issues in the context of the COVID 19 pandemic. His paper concluded with the idea of home(s) drawn from the multifaceted imagination of the Rohingya.
It is in this context; the refugees could emerge as a subject of risk in the municipal discourses of the time. In the discussion that followed, Arup Sen took up the issue of the biopolitics of the state and the contestations of the refugees. The film focused on the relatively recent phenomenon of refugee influx in the wake of the 1947 Partition and the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.
Conference
According to Hobsbawm, the idea of the "long nineteenth century" began from the time of the French Revolution (1789) to the First World War (1914–19). Her lecture covered the changes in the perception of the sick body in a pandemic age. Reza Hussaini's speech was based on the evacuation process carried out by the US and its allies in connection with the 2021 Afghan crisis.
It was pointed out that in the year 2020, about 50 families from Char village lost their homes. He further emphasized that the recent climate action plan of the state of West Bengal barely mentions the phenomenon of migration. Most of the migrants belong to the lower and middle classes and are the most dangerous recalcitrant group that, had they remained in the Philippines, would have sparked revolutions.
This may be due to fertility, rainfall and greenery, and the arrival of the potato in the 18th century, which led to greater survival. In the South Asian region, migration between Nepal and India is unique because of the open border. The workshop participants also expressed their opinion about the workshop and the conference.
There were few complaints about the long and hectic program from some of the participants.
Resolution: Declaration on Afghanistan
referring to the essential principles of the Kolkata Declaration (2018), which emphasize the need to adopt a southern perspective and a more refugee and migrant-oriented approach to the task of protecting refugees and migrants;. Considering the context of the two global agreements (2018) on the protection of refugees and migrants in which the Kolkata Declaration (2018) was adopted, and given the relative ineffectiveness of both global agreements in dealing with severe refugee and migrant crises such as Afghanistan today;. Where severe drought and the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated the humanitarian crisis and increased the powerlessness of the Afghan people;.
This international conference of more than a hundred academics, lawyers, activists, humanitarian officials and media persons gathered in Kolkata from twenty countries draws attention to this general context and supports the essential principles of protection and justice after the latest transition in Afghanistan. from all over the world at the workshop and conference on Ensure that the dignity of life and human rights of refugees and asylum seekers from Afghanistan will not be jeopardized in any way;. To ensure the prevention of refoulement, refusal at borders, forced return and denial of the right to seek asylum for various reasons, including public health reasons;
Adopt, in accordance with the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, specific assistance measures for internally displaced persons in the country, who constitute a large part of the displaced population there; To ensure access to healthcare, including Covid-19 testing, treatment and vaccination for Afghan refugees, migrants and asylum seekers. To uphold the principles of non-intervention, national reconciliation, stability and economic development of the people as a stable basis for the protection of the Afghan people from endless violence, war, famine, displacement, forced migration and ecological disaster;.
With extensive discussions and minor changes, the statement was accepted by the House, and shortly afterward, the statement was circulated through a press conference on the sidelines of the conference.
Evaluation
The programme, details of the participants, their abstracts and module notes, workshop papers, rapporteurs' reports and the feedback forms completed by the participants at the end of the program have been forwarded. The collaboration on the content of the workshop/conference has always been a meeting point for the partners from the various universities and institutions as well as donors. The distance part of the workshop began with an initial online meeting with all participants and resource persons on July 30, 2021.
The weekly program is designed to give participants an overview of the topics of the interconnected modules A-E. The comparative approach of the workshop/conference will provide new input for research work, teaching and the elaboration of competitive research project proposals. The local participants from the city of Calcutta formed the backbone of the conference.
The organizers provided the details about the selection process, the design of the workshop and conference, especially the remote segment of the workshop. The format of the module lectures followed by parallel module sessions at the workshop was excellent. The organizing team provided all the materials related to the workshop program schedule, details of the participants, their summaries and module notes, workshop papers, rapporteurs' reports and the feedback forms filled in by the participants at the end of the programme.
The best thing about the workshop was that each module was coordinated by a module facilitator.
Participants & Organisers
Anita Sengupta, Director of Asia in Global Affairs, & CRG, India Anjuman Ara Begum, Apex Professional University, India. Byasdeb Dasgupta, University of Kalyani & CRG, India Digangana Das, University of Calcutta & CRG, India Dipanjan Sinha, Independent Journalist, India. Meghna Guhathakurta, Research Initiative Bangladesh, Bangladesh Monika Verma, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Mouleshri Vyas, TISS Mumbai, & CRG, India.
नसरीन चौधरी, दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय और सीआरजी, भारत नीतू पोखरेल, एलायंस फॉर सोशल डायलॉग, नेपाल निलॉय बिस्वास, ढाका विश्वविद्यालय, बांग्लादेश निशारुद्दीन खान, आईडीएसके, भारत। पम्पा मुखर्जी, पंजाब विश्वविद्यालय, चंडीगढ़, भारत पाओलो नोवाक, स्कूल ऑफ ओरिएंटल एंड अफ्रीकन स्टडीज, एमबी परिवेलन के.एम., टीआईएसएस मुंबई, और सीआरजी, भारत। सब्यसाची बसु रे चौधरी, रवीन्द्र भारती विश्वविद्यालय और सीआरजी, भारत सलवा जहां, फ्रेडरिक नौमान फाउंडेशन फॉर फ्रीडम, बांग्लादेश।
Samir Kumar Das, University of Calcutta & CRG, India Sanjay Chaturvedi, South Asian University & CRG, India Sara Hossain, Bangladesh Legal Aid Services Trust, Bangladesh Sarulakshmi R., Kamla Nehru College, Delhi, India. Shreya Ghosh, Migrant Workers Solidarity Network, India Shyamalendu Majumdar, Sivanath Sastri College & CRG, India. Sreetapa Chakrabarty, Rabindra Bharati University, India Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty, The Asiatic Society & CRG, India Subhashree Rout, CRG, India.
Research Outcomes
Manish K Jha and Mouleshri Vyas, "Migrants, refugees and the contentious issue of social protection", Policy and Practices 125, December 2021. Nasreen Chowdhory, "Protection and Punishment: Myths and Realities of Refugee Protection", Policies and Practices, December 124 2021 . Ranabir Samaddar, "Refugees and Migrants as Subjects of Economy and Politics", Policy and Practices 121, December 2021.
Ronak Chhabra, »COVID-19 and After: Work, Life and Silence of Primitive Accumulation«, Policies and Practices 122, december 2021. Samir Kumar Das in Ranabir Samaddar, »Two Essays on Ethics and Practices of Care and Solidarity«, Policies and Prakse 123, december 2021.
