Distinguished Chair on Migration and Forced Migration Studies
The Governing Body of Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group (CRG) took a resolution in its 35th Governing Body Meeting held on 23 August 2015 to institute a Distinguished Chair on Migration and Forced Migration Studies and it was offered to Professor Ranabir Samaddar. The resolution was also approved by the members of CRG in its 19th Annual General Meeting held on 23 August 2015. The acceptance speech by Professor Samaddar "Crisis in Greece: Europe's Post Colonial Destiny" was held at the Academy of Fine Arts on 3 October 2015 from 6 - 8pm. For details of the programme click here .
Ranabir Samaddar is also a CIFAR Fellow. For Details click here.
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Migration to rich countries hits record high in 2023
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4.1 million migrants: Where they’re from, where they live in the U.S.
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Chungking Mansions, the chaos and glory at the heart of Hong Kong
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Meghalaya enacts legislation to protect migrant workers amid surge in attacks
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Bangladesh Students Protest Explained
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India’s Muslim ‘ghettos’ aren’t just a product of prejudice – they result from forced displacement
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A death on a melon farm sheds light on hard lives of illegal Indian migrants in Italy
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Illegal US Border Crossings Aren’t Really Breaking Records
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The war on migration is meant to be lost
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Revealed: More than 1,000 unmarked graves discovered along EU migration routes
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New Conversation article about Elon Musk's Visit to the Mexico/US Border
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U.S. Knew Saudis Were Killing African Migrants
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In Delhi's Migrant Worker Settlements, the Poor Remain Poor
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The words of the exiles tell their story
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The desperate Tories have one idea left: target the migrants, ramp up the fear
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Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.
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Ukraine Crisis doesn’t herald a New Era for Refugee Rights in Japan
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IASFM19 Conference eBooks : the e-books of the Keynotes and
accepted abstracts from IASFM19 (which was held August 1-5, 2022, and hosted
by the Universidade Catolica de Santos) are now available
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Where are immigrants moving in the US?
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"No wages, bad food leave workers trapped in China's Belt and Road"
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"Chinese city health system nears collapse under Covid debt burden"
18 July 2022, The Statesman
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The Horror at Melilla: Another Colonial Massacre?
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To the migrants who died in Texas, Biden is no different than Trump on immigration
Maeve Higgins
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"Ayahs' Home: Remembering the forgotten Indian nannies of London"
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“The Contentious Nature of Peace” by Ranabir Samaddar on War, Justice and Social Transformation, 25 April 2022,
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We Live in a World of Displacement.
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The Gujarati Family That Froze to Death in Search of the 'American Dream'.
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To Fully Understand the Migrant Worker Crisis, We Need a Larger Perspective.
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Operation Pied Piper: Britain’s Forgotten War Children by Marilyn Johnston, Booksandideas, December 23, 2021
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“Statelessness a condition of existence” (in German translated by the IWM editorial board), IWM Post, December 2021
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“Refusing Refugees”, Gagarin, the Eurozine Podcast, Eurozine, 17 December 2021
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“Seventy Years of the Geneva Refugee Convention: A Reason to Celebrate?”, Medizinische Flüchtlingshilfe, Bochum and the Institute of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, 25 November 2021
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“Democracy and Bio-politics from Below”, Central European University, Vienna and the Albert Hirschman Centre for Democracy, 18 October
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Americans treated us like animals. Then they deported us to Haiti.
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Rohingya Lodged In Jail For Seven Years Appeal to HC for Refugee Status
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Six Markers of the Postcolonial Destiny of the Refugee Convention of 1951
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Jews of Kolkata: A slice of history
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The Body Collector of Spain: When Migrants Die at Sea, He Gets Them
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Explained: BSF powers and jurisdiction
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In Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’, an insight into desperate lives of South Korea’s South Asian migrant workers
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“I Have Massive Nightmares” - Ali Mohammadi on his life in the Moria refugee camp, his fear of being deported, and the pandemic situation
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The U.S.’s History of Mistreating Haitian Migrants
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The Tampa affair, 20 years on: the ship that capsized Australia’s refugee policy
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Review: A Pandemic and the Politics of Life by Ranabir Samaddar - Telegraph India
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Interview- 'Workers Have Right to Relief': Activist Whose 10-Day Dharna Forced Govt to Yield
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Report Fact Finding Team on The condition of deported Indonesian migrants during the period of Covid-19 from Sabah, Malaysia to Indonesia (June 2019-September 2020)
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BJP's Authoritarian Population Policy Is in Sharp Contrast to Persuasive Strategies in the 1940s
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The root cause of Central American migration? The United States
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Activists Puncture Govt's Claims on Steps It Took to Combat Migrant Workers' Crisis
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Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, “Atlas of Migration”, Third Edition (2020)
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The Legend of Fat Mama – a film on the Chinese community in the city of Calcutta
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Contrary to SC Ruling, Manipur HC Reading of ‘Non-Refoulement’ Recognises Right of Asylum Seekers
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Estimated 4,000-6,000 refugees from Myanmar sought safety in India: UN
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Without Access to Vaccines or Medicines, COVID Adds to Rohingya Refugees' Woes
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The Curious Case of Olu Oguibe’s Monument for Strangers and Refugees - Conceived as a tribute during ‘the refugee crisis’ of 2014/15, the American artist Olu Oguibe’s art of producing an obelisk against the backdrop of Europe battling humanitarian crisis, represented the fundamentals left unspoken under the flagship of democracy. Writer and art curator Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung reflects on the goodness of hospitality and care and the hypocrisy of nationhood, religion, democracy and the values of guiding culture alike in this article. The writer remains hopeful that the raising and dismantling of a monument dedicated to refugees, that has paved the way to a meeting point and selfie-backdrop for migrant communities – will now through its restoration lead to the exploration of issues of displacement, hospitality and compassion.
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Purgatory at sea: Off the coast of Italy, cruise ships are being repurposed as holding pens for migrants rescued from the Mediterranean
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Bharat-e Sanshodhito Naya Nagorikotto Ain O Paschim Bange Udbastu Sankoter Prekhyapot
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Deported by Biden: a Vietnamese refugee separated from his family after decades in US
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Supreme Court must rethink its order on deportation of Rohingya refugees
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A lucrative border-industrial complex keeps the US border in constant ‘crisis’
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Why is the right obsessed with ‘defending’ borders? Because it sees citizenship as a commodity
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Political Diary | Migrants back in national focus
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Raghu Rai’s rediscovered negatives relive the horrors of B’desh’s liberation
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Podcast: A Cultural Battle Is Being Fought in Every Village in West Bengal
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Refoulement, Rohingya and a Refugee Policy for India
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The global refugee protection regime is broken. Here’s how to fix it
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SC ruling on Rohingya is against India’s commitments to international law
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Special Issue and Discussions: Vulnerable Populations in Japan under Covid-19: A lull in the storm
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India can’t be capital of illegal migrants, govt tells SC, justifies move on Rohingya
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Myanmar in turmoil, let in refugees: Mizoram CM writes to PM
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Real-life ‘Terminal’: How People
Manage to Live at Airports for Months and Years
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Indian Coast Guard Asks Bangladesh to 'Take Back' 81 Rohingya People Found at Sea
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| The first edition of the toolbox on migration in peace policy and practice - a result of a Joint Learning Process on Peacebuilding & Migration | |
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“Migrant Workers Solidarity Network”
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“Unprecedented Exodus’: Why are
Migrant Workers Leaving the UK?”
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“Stories of how refugees in Asia are finding ways to not only survive but thrive as they await resettlement, and the communities that are helping them get back on their feet”
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“Who holds the microphone?' Crisis-affected women's voices on gender-transformative changes in humanitarian settings: Experiences from Bangladesh, Colombia, Jordan and Uganda”
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How did Indian immigrants to the US become a ‘model minority’?
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Causing 'Profound' Trauma, Trump Administration Detained Record-Breaking 70,000 Children in 2019
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Hundreds of Rohingya Refugees Stuck at Sea With ‘Zero Hope’
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Principles of Protection of Migrants, Refugees, and Displaced Persons in times of COVID 19
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Migrant Workers in “The Present Time of Chaos”
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Migrant workers’ rush chokes transit points in the East: Where do we go, what do we do now?
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Obhabe ghar cherechilum, phirlum nisha hoye, parijeyo sramikder ghare ghare ha ha kar…A Bengali Article
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Migrant Worker Dies After Walking 200 Km to Agra From Delhi
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22 Migrant Workers, Kin Have Died Trying to Return Home Since the Lockdown Started
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Sanitation workers – the wages of ingratitude
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West Bengal migrant labourers who returned to village quarantine themselves on tree branches
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Hunger Can Kill Us Before the
Virus': Migrant Workers on the March During Lockdown
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Coronavirus may have long lasting impact on inter-state migration
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Migrant workers’ rush chokes transit points in the East: Where do we go, what do we do now?
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India's coronavirus lockdown takes toll on migrant workers
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Hungry, stranded and broke: Coronavirus travel bans hit migrant worker
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Despite Maharashtra lockdown, labourers rushing to leave Mumbai, Pune in jampacked buses face coronavirus threat
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Homeless with no income, migrant labourers wish they had left Delhi before the lockdown
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Coronavirus: India’s lockdowns are a matter of life and death for its 450 million informal workers
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India's poorest 'fear hunger may kill us before coronavirus'
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India lockdown: Rajasthan migrant workers in Gujarat leave for homes on foot
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Coronavirus: ‘Why has Modi done this?’ Rajasthan workers walk back home from Gujarat
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Karnataka: Migrant Workers Taken to Camps for 'Verification Drive', 500 Detained
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Stop ignoring us: Rohingya refugees demand role in running camps
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Letter from Beijing: Love in the Time of COVID-19, 2020
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Sadako Ogata, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, 1927-2019,
November 2019
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Australia’s Shame by J.M. Coetzee,The New York Review of Books,
September 26, 2019
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Malaysia and Bangladesh look to islands for refugee settlements
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ATLAS OF
Facts and figures about
people on the move
MIGRATION
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Greece: 39 Months at City Plaza for Refugees Ends,
July 15,2019
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Rape, Malnutrition, Depression: Life in Bangladesh Rohingya Camps, the quint, July 15, 2019
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NRC: A Major Storm is brewing, the Telegraph, July 15, 2019
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An article on the Life Saver - ORS by Dipankar Bhattacharya published in Anandabazar Patrika on 16 June 2019. English translation follows...
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| In 40 Days, 60,000 Child Migrants Were Placed Into Concentration Camps | |
| Detained Kids at the Border Have to Care for Other Kids - The Atlantic | |
| Decentring the ‘Global’: A South Asian Migration Research Agenda LIDC Migration Leadership Team Global Migration Conversation Delhi, 22-23 May 2018 | |
| Released on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 'The State of Refugees and Displaced People in Europe' is a summary of Refugee Rights Europe's key field research findings from 2017-2018 | |
| Naxalbari and Popular Movements: A Conversation with Ranabir Samaddar | |
| Decision on the " Prosecution's Request for Ruling on Jurisdiction under Article 19(3) of the Statute", September 6, 2018 | |
| Capitalism thrives on the immigrant labour economy (and also keeps refugee conditions precarious), Scroll, July 27, 2018 | |
| Internal Displacement in Asia due to Natural Disaster, The Jakarta Post, August 9, 2018 | |
| “It is easy to be xenophobic, it is harder to be humanitarian” by Meghna Guhathakurta, South Asia@LSE, August 1, 2018 | |
| "A Migrant Boy Rejoins His Mother, but He's not the Same" by Miriam Jordan, The New York Times, July 31, 2018 | |
| An article by Ravi Palat on Meddlesome and More, The Hindu, July 23, 2018 | |
| An article by Ravi Palat on Decoding Trump’s Attack on Europe, The Hindu, July 18, 2018 | |
| An article by Anne Mccall and Ravi Palat on Police Brutality towards Children and the Separation of Children from their Parents are not new in the U.S., The Hindu, June 28, 2018 | |
| An article by Dr. Jeff Crisp on the new trend of premature repatriation of refugees by UNHCR. Dr. Crisp was formerly head of policy development and evaluation at UNHCR, and is currently affiliated to Chatham House and Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Center. | |
| Humane migration: A manifesto for change; An international group of scholars working with people in forced migration got together last month and drafted a manifesto on humane migration as a way to creatively work towards positive change. | |
Building workers: Gujarat official blames Rohingiya "infiltration"; only 20 of 877 deaths compensated since 2008, Counterview, April 27, 2018. |
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| https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/bihar-hindu-refugees-from-east-pakistan-want-land-living-identity/story-WUinXFN2BbAiAPJmOclMSI.html | |
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Susan Martin’s new blog about the Trump Administration’s misuse of Barbara Jordan’s legacy to support its misguided Immigration policies is available on the Center for Migration Studies website. Martin served as the ED of the US Commission on Immigration Reform. |
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| The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 35/2017: http://openmigration.org/en/web-review/the-10-best-articles-on-refugees-and-migration-352017/ | |
| https://www.opendemocracy.net/freeform-tags/refugees | |
| http://time.com/tag/rohingya/ | |
| http://www.thehindu.com/topic/Rohingya_crisis/ | |
| http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/subjects/refugees.html | |
| https://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/refugees-and-displaced-people | |
| http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/syrian-refugees/story/refuge/ | |
| Discussing the Rohingya Refugee Crisis by OCT. 11, 2017: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/world/asia/rohingya-refugee-crisis.html | |
| Myanmar's Crisis, Bangladesh's Burden: Among the Rohingya Refugees Waiting for a Miracle by FELIZ SOLOMON / COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH November 23, 2017: http://time.com/5031342/bangladesh-myanmar-rohingya-refugee-crisis/ | |
| The ungrateful refugee: 'We have no debt to repay' - The Guardian, April 17, 2017 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/04/dina-nayeri-ungrateful-refugee | |
| http://www.alterinter.org/spip.php?article4384 | |
| http://www.nrc.no/?did=9211815#.Vwt_75x95kh | |
| http://www.alterinter.org/spip.php?article4382 | |
| http://www.alterinter.org/spip.php?article4384 | |
| http://crm.alternatives.ca/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2410&qid=691313 | |
| http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/refugee-crisis-eu-deportations-to-turkey-from-lesbos-continue-despite-protests-a6974266.html | |
| http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/04/deportation-refugees-greece-turkey-begins-160404040709971.html | |
| https://anongalactic.com/50000-march-in-poland-against-immigration/ | |
| http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/no-one-told-me-i-was-going-to-be-interviewed-by-a-muslim-suu-kyi/ | |
| http://www.buzzfeed.com/kellylynnlunde/these-refugees-say-police-are-beating-them#.cpJz12E7M | |
| https://www.freemovement.org.uk/inspectors-refugees-held-in-wholly-unacceptable-conditions-in-freight-shed/ | |
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"Broken Men in Paradise: The world's refugee crisisknows no
more sinister exercise in cruelty than Australia's island
prisons" http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/opinion/sunday/australia-refugee-prisons-manus-island.html?smid=fb-share&_r=2 |
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| Paris Authorities order volunteers to stop distributing food to refugees - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/authorities-in-paris-order-volunteers-to-stop-distributing-food-to-refugees-a7584351.html | |
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Black Athena Reloaded 1: Ideas as Migrants, Our Common
Ghosts with Christian Nyampeta and Isaïe Nzeyimana- http://www.documenta14.de/en/calendar/20376/black-athena-reloaded-1-ideas-as-migrants-day-one |
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| The Apatride Society of the Political Others- http://www.documenta14.de/en/public-programs/1036/the-apatride-society-of-the-political-others | |
| The Society for The End of Necropolitics- http://www.documenta14.de/en/public-programs/1035/the-society-for-the-end-of-necropolitics | |
| The noospheric society- http://www.documenta14.de/en/public-programs/1037/the-noospheric-society | |
| The Society of Friends of Ulises Carrion- http://www.documenta14.de/en/public-programs/5155/the-society-of-friends-of-ulises-carrion | |
| The Cooperatives Society- http://www.documenta14.de/en/public-programs/9494/the-cooperativist-society | |
| Report of the Special Reporter on the human rights of migrants on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility- http://reliefweb.int/report/world/report-special-rapporteur-human-rights-migrants-2035-agenda-facilitating-human-mobility | |
| https://social.shorthand.com/shafiur/uyTyLld5K3/there-is-no-rohingya-left-in-tulatoli | |
| http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/centre-to-grant-citizenship-on-chakma-hajong-refugees/articleshow/60505617.cms |
