RLS in South Asia
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Browse and access a wide range of resources including reports, articles, and videos which we produce in collaboration with our partners. The content can be searched using the filters.
RLS in South Asia
Browse and access a wide range of resources including reports, articles, and videos which we produce in collaboration with our partners. The content can be searched using the filters.
India, International Dialogue, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group |
Nirvan Pradhan explores recruitment zones in the Eastern Himalayas as part of migration infrastructure within the more extensive global labour regimes.
India, International Dialogue, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group |
The aim of this paper by Ahmad Ibrahim is to recount this history of female migration into KSA from Bangladesh during the 2015-2018 period as an example of collusion between profit-oriented recruiters and the state apparatus, where women were used as a pawn for opening up the more lucrative male labour migration market.
Read more … Pawns for Profits - Analysing the Plight of Bangladeshi Female Migrant
India, International Dialogue, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group |
This paper by Rajat Kanti Sur searches for whether unionisation would play an influential role in ensuring safety and socio-economic security for the informal and gig workers.
Read more … "United We Stand": Role of Unionisations among the Gig Labours in India
India, International Dialogue, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group |
In this article, authors, Debashree Chakraborty and Shubhoranjan Dasgupta, explores the literary imaginations of climate change and its effects.
Read more … Literary Imagination of Climate Change and Climate Disasters
International Dialogue, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group |
The handbook aims at a compilation and brief explication of key terms used in the multidisciplinary field of refugee and forced migration studies.
Read more … Keywords on Forced Migration and Refugee Studies
India, International Dialogue, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group |
This paper tries to trace the origins of Kaibarta migration in Barak valley of Southern Assam by focusing on how the community came and settled in the region.
Read more … The Kaibarta Question in Barak Valley, Assam: A Curious Case of Settlements in Flux
India, International Dialogue, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group |
This report explores citizenship dilemmas in Assam, India, where the state has designated a group called 'Non Citizens.' These individuals live in a state of limbo, facing daily threats of deportation. The report examines the implications of this situation.
Read more … Navigating Precarity: Analysing Multiple Narratives of Citizenship in Assam
India, International Dialogue, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group |
With Jammu and Kashmir witnessing extreme weather events like the earthquake in 2005, flash floods and landslides in 2010, and the massive floods of 2014; the Bakarwal population is finding it difficult to continue the centuries-old practice of transhumance pastoralism.
India, International Dialogue, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group |
This paper explores the role of cooperatives in fostering solidarity among economically disadvantaged migrant workers from various backgrounds in Kolkata, based on case studies of press workers, construction workers, sanitation workers, and sex workers.
Read more … Solidarity for Survival: Cooperative Building as a Solution to Overcome Vulnerability
India, International Dialogue, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group |
Climate change is frighteningly real. The global discourse on climate change has turned increasingly towards understanding vulnerability as a priority for research and policy.
India, International Dialogue, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group |
The erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, now divided into the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, has a significant tribal population, including Gujjars and Bakkarwals, who were recognized as Scheduled Tribes after the end of British Colonial rule and have since received affirmative action from the state.
India, International Dialogue, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group |
This paper argues that racism is a European invention instituted through the project of colonialism.
Read more … Theorising Race and Space in a Transnational Context
International Dialogue, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group |
Representations of connectivity: The politics and economics of routes in the Asian context, namely the Silk Road.
International Dialogue, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group |
Interwoven realities: logistics and the reshaping of global governance - most propably in favour of China.
International Dialogue, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group |
Finance capital and infrastructure development: the Asian context in view of the new Act East Policy.