The Sixth Annual Winter Course on Forced Migration, 2008

8.  

 Creative Assignments  
                   

Creative Assignment over the years has become an interesting aspect of the fifteen-day residential programme.  During the distance education segment suggestions were sent to the participants to indicate their choices and each of them submitted and presented their creative assignment on the concluding day of the fifteen-day residential programme. 

The circular for the creative assignment carried the following suggestions: - 

1.Suppose you are an editor of a magazine. Prepare a special issue of the magazine on issues of forced migration. 

2. Prepare a 4-5 day course syllabus, which will include issues of Forced Migration, Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons.  

3. Prepare an investigative report of any situation of forced displacement in your region (local or national).  

4. Prepare short commentaries on the recent reforms towards relief & rehabilitation of IDPs in your countries; these can be posted on Refugee Watch Online. 

5. Write a short story on the situation of any refugee/IDP group.  

6. Prepare either a photo exhibit or a poster exhibit on forced displacement.  

7. Write few songs on the situation of the victims of forced displacement.  

8. Collect some literary pieces (songs, poems, stories) on the theme of forced migration and prepare a compendium with them.  

9. A ten- minute documentary on any situation of forced displacement.

 

 

 

 

From Left to Right : Giorgio Grappi, Khorshed Talati, Ruchira Goswami and Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty

 

List of Creative Assignments

Sl No

Name

Creative Assignment

1.

Anup Shekhar Chakraborty

Short story -“Twice displaced, vision of life through an Afghan refugee”

2.

Anuradha Gunarathne

Documentary Film on Internal Displacement situation in Sri Lanka

3

ATM Morshed Alam

Report- ‘Stranded Pakistani’, ‘Bihari’ or ‘Urdu-speaker’

4.

Badri Prasad Subedi

Short story based on the experiences of a farmer when Nepal was driven with internal conflict.

5.

Debdatta Chowdhury

Poster exhibition of displaced people.  She conveyed two messages in her posters: 1) anxiety, uncertainty, loss becomes symbolic of the 'displaced'. 2) Loss of identity regarding displaced persons.

6.

Deewesh Prasad

Report on Burmese Refugees in Delhi

7.

Francis Adaikalam

Photo essay on Sanitation condition of Refugee Camps in Tamil Nadu.

8.

Giorgio Grappi

Photo essay of the struggles of migrants in Italy to get their rights recognised, either as citizens or as migrants. 

9.

Janaina De M Galvao

Report on “Being a Refugee in Argentina” - The legal regime of protection, some numbers and stories

10.

Khorshed Talati

Compilation of various poems, and songs, written by music bands, poets, children and the participant herself attempted to give an insight into the different aspects of displacement and refugee experiences of Parsis, Kashmiri Pandits and Palestinians. The document also

11

Kinga Janik

Photo-essay “Who are you?” based on experiences and struggle of children living in conflict ridden Uganda.

12.

M. Peter Jeyaprakash

Short story based on the experience of a Sri Lankan refugee woman in a camp in Tamil Nadu.

13.

Pascale Mclean

An article based on interviews held in West Bengal on girls and women trafficking with different stakeholders. 

14.

Roopshree Joshi

Photo exhibition of the “Tibetans in exile”.

15.

Sahana Basavapatna

Cartoon Critique of the Refugee problem- compilation of cartoons.

16.

Shahiuz Zaman Ahmed

Report- “Flood and riverbank erosion induced IDPs of Assam: Enormity of the problem and question of justice”.