Gender, Displacement and Resistance in South Asia: The Case of Women Uprooted...
Sreya Sen - Doctoral Fellow, Department of South and Southeast Asian StudiesUniversity of Calcutta, India. This paper was presented at a workshop on Gender, Development, Resistance at the University of...
View ArticleUrbanization: Constructing the city and lives of the people
Anish Bhandari (abhandari@soscbaha.org) works at the Centre for the Study of Labor and Mobility (CESLAM) at Social Science Baha, Kathmandu, Nepal.Those who have probably known Kathmandu for a long time...
View ArticleHill of Contentions: Guwahati's Story
Snehashish Mitra (biltu0717@gmail.com) works as a research assistant at Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group. Guwahati, in the state of Assam is the largest city of Northeast India, which provides...
View ArticleRohingyas: The Newest 'Boat People' of Asia
Sucharita Sengupta (sucharitaseng@gmail.com) works as a research assistant at Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group. While Europe is facing its worst migration crisis since the Balkan wars in the 90s,...
View ArticleEmpire Strikes Back: The Tragic Journey of Komagata Maru
Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty (srchakraborty@gmail.com) is an eminent historian and a retired professor of History of Presidency College, Kolkata. The Journey Baba Gurdit Singh, a successful Sikh...
View ArticleBoat People: Uniting Syria and Vietnam
Snehashish Mitra (biltu0717@gmail.com) is a research assistant at Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group. As Aylan Kurdi, the three year old Syrian boy of Kurdis ethnic background lied lifeless on a sea...
View ArticleIntroduction: The Boat People
"2016, the Mediterranean is a mass grave," Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). This calendar year has already been marked by serious refugee crisis all over the world. Large scale movement of people from...
View ArticleTabassum’s Morning in India – The Story of a ‘Separated’ Minor Refugee Girl
Preeta Chaudhuri[Email:preetachaudhuri@gmail.com. Currently works as a Social Sector Consultant in a Big 4 firm. The following article is from the time when she used to work as a Child Protection...
View ArticleCMHA Ontario’s Webinars: Important resource in taking care of refugee mental...
Mahanam Bhattacharjee Mithun(Mahanam is a MA student under European Masters in Migration and Intercultural Relations Programme. He is presently an intern in Calcutta Research Group)Canadian Mental...
View ArticleUN Report Declares Crime against Rohingyas as Crime against Humanity: News Links
Sucharita Sengupta(Sucharita Sengupta works at Calcutta Research Group and can be reached at sucharitaseng@gmail.com)2015 was a landmark year for Myanmar. In the first half it made news for all the...
View ArticleMigration and Security
Ranabir Samaddar [Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies, CRG. He can be reached at ranabir@mcrg.ac.in]When we speak of human security we first of all recognise the need and the...
View ArticleWorkshop on Power and Influence in the Global Refugee Regime, 23 to 25...
Sreya Sen (Sreya Sen is a Doctoral Fellow at University of Calcutta.She participated in the workshop as an International Student Rapporteur along with Dacia Douhaibi (York University).)A workshop on...
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Book Review: The Agartala Doctrine: A Proactive Northeast in Indian Foreign...
Snehashish Mitra(Snehashish is a research assistant at Calcutta Research Group and can be reached at snehashish@mcrg.ac.in)In the annals of history, today’s northeast region (NER) of India has been a...
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Renowned artist from Kolkata, Sanatan Dinda won the first prize at the World Bodypainting Festival 2016, Portschach (Austria). The theme of the final round was ‘Propaganda’ (control of the public mind)...
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Mein Hoon Yusuf Aur Yeh Mera Bhai: The Story of a Real People
Maithreyi Karnoor (Maithreyi writes reviews for The Hindu, and can be reached at maitreyi.karnoor@gmail.com)An earlier version of this review was published in The Hindu, April 29, 2016. Ethnic violence...
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Fratricide: A Review.
Madhurilata Basu (Madhurilata teaches Political Science at Gurudas College and can be reached at basu.madhurilata@gmail.com)Director: Yilmaz ArslanCast: Erdal Celik, Nurretin Celik, Xevat GectanRunning...
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Harraga: Snapshot on A Migration and Its Representation
Baya Yantren (Baya is a Law student at McGill University and she can be reached at baya.yantren@gmail.com)Harragaحراقةis a word that has many meanings, that has its own sounds, its images, its texts,...
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Migrations and Identities: A Study of Sea of Poppies
Samata Biswas(Samata teaches English at Bethune College and can be reached at bsamata@gmail.com)“...the Ibis was not a ship like any other; in her inward reality she was a vehicle of transformation,...
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IO STO CON LA SPOSA: A Video-Graphic Review
Tommaso Manfredini(Tommaso is a Doctoral Student in the Department of French and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University and can be reached at tm2538@columbia.edu)EU...
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