It is part of the Calcutta Research Group's research program on migration and forced migration. In this issue, we present research conducted under the auspices of the South Asia Network of Displacement and Development (SANDD) project.
A Social Mapping of Displacement in India
1. Displaced Population
- Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)
- Asylum Seekers and Refugees
The displaced population can be known as internally displaced persons, asylum seekers, refugees, potentially displaced persons - the form of displacement in each case is mainly shaped by the 'reason' for moving from one place to another also called a 'driver' or 'cause'. ' of displacement. Forms of displacement or the underlying factor behind the classification of the displaced population into different types is determined by 'force' or.
2. Drivers of Displacement
- Conflict Related Displacement
- Development Related Displacement
- Land Acquisition and Displacement
- Industrial Development and Displacement
- Dam Construction and Displacement
- Disasters
- Climate
A Social Mapping of Displacement in India 11 illustrated by the lifestyle change of tribal women of the forests of Singrauli in Madhya Pradesh, caused by displacement due to the establishment of the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC).36. A Social Mapping of Displacement in India 13 the plots could be made arable because much of the remaining area lay barren from the remains of concrete structures.42 Despite the distribution of seed and manure with arable form of land retained, the number of farmers who cultivates land. decreased in the area.
3. Hotspots of Displacement in India
- Special Economic Zones and Mining Industry
There is often inadequacy on the part of the host location or host community of destination in providing social protection and recognizing the rights of the displaced population. The delta is one of the hotspots for hydro-meteorological hazards such as storms and cyclones.
4. Policy Implications
A Social Map of Displacement in India 19 has agreed to accept them - as refugees - with permanent resident status.68. Provisions for the inclusion of those displaced from their land become a daunting challenge for the government.
Climate Change and Migration: Dialogues with Community Stakeholders in Skardu,
Gilgit-Baltistan
Noor Sanauddin *
According to the youth, most of the migration from Sadpara village is permanent in nature. 17% of young people also considered a lack of social services in the village as a major reason for migration.
IDPs in Afghanistan: Some Reflections
Ethnically, most of the IDPs living in the camps are Pashtuns, some are Tajiks, but there are no Hazaras in these 53 informal camps in Kabul. The first dialogue with the displaced took place in Enzar Gul's house inside the camp. Once, when the Minister of Education visited the camp, he promised to build a school for the displaced people in the camp.
While their stay in the camps was prolonged, IDPs still saw it as temporary. The government sees IDPs as squatters and any kind of construction or development in the camp as a means to legitimize their stay. They argued that IDPs were trying to expand their area of occupation every day.
There was tension in the area and staff claimed that IDPs had beaten up one of their employees. IDPs and Afghanistan: Some Reflections 47 They also claimed that MORR had allocated land for IDPs in an area called Gospand Darah.
Mapping Vulnerabilities in Bangladesh: An Indicative Report Based on Household
Surveys and Stakeholders’ Dialogues
This trend is also important in relation to the position of the woman in the family. But in the findings of the study, there was evidence where the legal system failed to address such complaints. People living in camps across Dhaka are being forcibly displaced by housing societies in the name of development.
Rohingya women as well as local female residents are subjected to sexual harassment and all other forms of harassment in Cox's Bazaar region. They become victims of eviction and displacement due to the arrogance of politicians in the name of development. It was discussed about the violation of human rights, harassment of women and discrimination happening in the country.
It was emphasized that in the Rohingya community there is more vulnerability as women are not educated. One should try to identify loopholes or gray areas in the law which work in favor of the political establishment.
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Covid-19 in South Asia: Regional Perspectives on Vulnerabilities and
Dispossession”
Sukanya Bhattacharya *
Mohsin stressed the need to question the sustainability of the development paradigm with more research on the informal sector. Compared to other South Asian countries, the Nepalese government did not respond adequately to the plight of the foreign migrants who returned. With increasing dependence on the developing state, the responsibility of the state began to diminish.
The state could not control the movement of the infected people to control the spread of the virus. A mass exodus of migrant workers (as happened in India) did not occur in Pakistan because of civil society and charitable initiatives that mitigated the immediate and pressing problems of the returning migrants. There were questions about the condition of the Rohingyas and how the government responded to the category of the 'New Poor'.
She was also asked about the reaction of the unions and the state of the LGBTQIA+ community. Due to the overwhelming presence of the military, democratic rights and discourse in Pakistan are also constantly at risk.
Regular Features
Colonialism, Resource Crisis and Forced Migration
Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty *
Income tax settlements subordinated the peasantry to the local despotism of dninars and newly rich landowners. This is seen in the context of plantation labour, especially tea in Assam and the Dooars area. Deforestation also deprived people of forest products for food.
The early years of the subjugated system saw a significant migrant population in the British colonies in the West Indies or Mauritius. 10Mike Davis, The Late Victorian Holocaust, El Nino, Famine and the Making of the Third World, London-New York: Verso, 2002, p. 16Mike Davis, The Late Victorian Holocaust, El Nino, Famine and the Making of the Third World, London-New York: Verso, 2002, p.
23Mike Davis, Laat-Victoriaanse Holocaust, El Nino, Famines and the Making of the Third World, Londen, New York: Verso, 2002, p. 55Mike Davis, Laat-Victoriaanse Holocaust, El Nino, Famines and the Making of the Third World, Londen-New York: Verso, 2002, p.
At the Threshold of Dreadful Delight
Migrant Male Sex-Workers and Transgressive Sexuality in
Preeshita Biswas *
Released in 2018, Netflix's adaptation of Carr's The Alienist finds itself at a critical moment in modern United States history. The Gilded Age of American history in the late nineteenth century witnessed a period of rapid economic development, particularly in the northern and western United States. Through a detailed analysis of the representation of migrant teenage male sex workers in The Alienist, in this work I show how the narrative exposes the xenophobic and homophobic tendencies of late nineteenth-century New York.
The body of the migrant homosexual sex worker becomes a site for inscribing racial and gender taboos and impurities. Beecham is both fascinated and repulsed by the "deviant" bodies of the young migrant sex workers he sees in New York. Some of these customers, such as Wilhelm Van Bergen, belonged to the upper echelons of society.
The indeterminacy of the states of migration and alienation in the text is exposed by the makeshift team of detectives assembled by Dr. The figure of the "deviant" male migrant sex worker was seen as a threat to the moral economy of the white patriarchal community. cityscape.
Reflection
Calcutta: Migrant City
Upward mobility is indicated here by moving to the southern or eastern edge of the city, perhaps the same place in which my friend lives. Interestingly, with the establishment of a local branch of the communist party, India's revolutionary freedom fighters found places of safety in the Old China Town of Tirettabazar (named after that Frenchman who also built the French cemetery at Park Street), along ' a stock of firearms. Calcutta, although Calcutta was indeed the culmination of the arduous journey from Rajasthan they had undertaken.
People from the urban agglomeration of Calcutta were found to be migrants, where they all came from and what they did in the city. Circular migration and the persistence of poverty provide one of Calcutta's iconic images: the hand-pulled rickshaw. Take the example of the conservation workers employed by the Calcutta Municipal Corporation – the setting up of the colonial city also required a dedicated workforce to clean the drains, remove the dead and sweep the streets.
Of them, 25 of the female workers were engaged in prostitution while 42% were employed in the Domestic work sector. One from Dehradun and the other from Bhagalpur carry the pride and promise of the migratory city on their shoulders.
Book Review
Himadri Chatterjee *
The determination of duty and responsibility remains one of the implicit threads that connect the chapters in this book. The chapter highlights three different facets of the idea of responsibility with regard to agentic, consequentialist and ethical insights. The chapters in the book seem to focus mainly on the first two insights of the idea of responsibility.
Empirical examples of the third notion of responsibility appear to be difficult to find, at least in the contexts explored by the studies reported in this volume. The editors and authors share a broad consensus that there has been a measured use of both discourses of identity production that has created a hybrid ideological apparatus to exclude and even "exterminate" the Rohingya population. A few essays document that there are conflicts with such surveillance technologies.
The ethnographies of the refugee camp in Bangladesh demonstrate and add detail to the condition of the refugees and the story. In the case of the Rohingya crisis, such reporting and documentation has been difficult to obtain.
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