Mahanirban Calcutta Research group

Gopal Krishna is a law, philosophy and public policy researcher, lawyer and a bilingual writer on the subject of science, environmental and occupational health, ecocide, disarmament, consciousness of big data, citizenship, agriculture and justice. He has formally studied law, philosophy, mass communication and public health. He did his Ph.D from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi on the subject of corporate crimes with specific reference to industrial disaster of Bhopal. His Post-Doctoral work was on inter-state migrants in the shipbreaking industry and data justice. He is the editor of ToxicsWatch journal, an online journal. He is an ex-Fellow of Berlin based International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter Strategies (IRGAC). Currently he is a lawyer at the Patna High Court, Bihar.

Working and living environment of the labour in the hazardous industry: Legal remedy for migrant workers and their families in the asbestos industry and construction industry

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Paula Banerjee, best known for her work on women in borderlands and women and forced migration, is currently the IDRC Endowed Chair on Gender and Forced Displacement at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok. She was the President of International Association For Studies in Forced Migration. Previously she was the Chair of the Department of South and South East Asian Studies, University of Calcutta. She had held several academic and administrative posts in India and abroad. That include vice chancellorship of The Sanskrit College and University, India and Director, Calcutta Research Group. In 2013 she was awarded the Distinguished Fulbright SIR Award and a Visiting Professorship to SUNY, Oswego. She is the editor of Refugee Watch and the editorial board member of a number of international journals such as Oxford Journal of Refugees. She has written and edited over 15 books and monographs and has published widely in international journals such as Journal of Borderland Studies, Canadian Journal of Women’s Studies, Forced Migration Review and Journal of International Studies. Acknowledged as a radical and prolific speaker she has delivered lectures in all five continents. She has been a visiting professor in a number of universities including Helsinki University (Finland), Yunnan University (China) University of Paris 7 (France) and New School, New York (USA) and other.

Climate Change and its Impact on the Women Migrant Labours in Unorganised Sector in South & South-East Asia

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Shatabdi Das is Researcher at the Calcutta Research Group (CRG). She was Junior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna, in Austria, in April 2022, under the ‘Europe-Asia Research Platform on Forced Migration’. She is currently doing research on urban and environmental issues and climate crisis. She has previously worked as Junior Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban Economic Studies, University of Calcutta and has also taught Geography at PG level in Sarsuna College, Kolkata (affiliated to the University of Calcutta). Shatabdi has been working with CRG since 2018 on research projects on migration studies, borderlands, displacement, environment and climate change. She was awarded Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Calcutta in 2020. Her Doctoral thesis is on ‘the impact of industrial and urban development on the environment of Asansol-Durgapur Planning Area’.

Environmental Hazards and Vulnerability: The Case of Bengal

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