The Sixth Annual Winter Course on Forced Migration, 2008

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 Participants 
                   

Anup Shekhar Chakraborty is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, St. Joseph’s College (North Bengal University), Darjeeling- 734104, West Bengal. His research area encapsulates issues of ‘Identity’, ‘Tribal Politics’, ‘Migrations’, ‘Boundaries’, ‘Religion’, State-building, Development and ‘Citizenship and Spatial politics’ in the North-Eastern State of Mizoram.Email: ascoty2000@yahoo.co.in 

Anuradha Gunarathne is now serving as the National Project Coordinator, National Protection and Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons Project of Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka. Email: anuradhag6@yahoo.com, hrccidp@sltnet.lk 

ATM Morshed Alam is an Advocate and is currently working as a Senior Research Organizer with a leading human rights organization of Bangladesh namely Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK). E-mail: morshedalam_302@yahoo.com 

Badri Prasad Subedi has completed his LL.M (Commercial Law), MA (Political Science) from Tribhuvan University Nepal. He is currently working in NHRC- Nepal as a Promotion Officer. Email: badri.subedi@nhrcnepal.org; badrisubedi@gmail.com

Debdatta Chowdhury is currently working as a research assistant at Gandhian Studies Centre, Calcutta.

Email: debdatta.chowdhury@gmail.com 

Deewesh Prasad has completed his Masters in Social Work and is currently working with UNHCR, India as a UNV.Email: rishi.peace@gmail.com

Francis Adaikalam is a lecturer at Department of Social Work, Loyola College, Chennai. Email: v.francis@gmail.com 

Giorgio Grappi, PhD (University of Bologna) is a scholar in history of political thought and an activist for migrant's rights, freedom of movement and right to stay. Email: giorgio.grappi@unibo.it 

Janaina Galvao, is working for the ICRC (Buenos Aires) as web editor for the ICRC's Portuguese website. Currently finishing her Masters on International Studies at the University Torcuato di Tella, also in Buenos Aires. Email: janainagalvao@hotmail.com. 

Khorshed Talati has recently completed her Masters in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and is working as a Programme Associate in Sir Ratan Tata Trust. Her interest areas are women's issues, conflict, ethnicity and forced migration. Email: khorshed.talati@gmail.com 

Kinga Janik is a last year PhD student in law at University of Montréal. Her thesis is directed by Pr François Crépeau, Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Professor of Public International Law, at the Faculty of Law of McGill University. Her research focuses on the legal status given to foreigners who seek asylum in Western countries, more particulary in Canada. Kinga Janik has started her career as a lawyer within the federal Department of Justice in Ottawa in 2000 and since then has worked in several positions advising officials on Charter and immigration issues. She now dedicates her time to her thesis and research in immigration matters. Email: kingajanik@ymail.com 

M. Peter Jeyaprakash (MSW), working for UNHCR (Chennai) as Voluntary Repatriation Specialist. Email: peterjeyaprakash@yahoo.com and peterjeyaprakash@gmail.com 

Pascale McLean is a lawyer. She represented women associated with the South Asian Women Community Center in Montreal for several years.  She is presently doing her master thesis on trafficking of women.  During the fall of 2008, she did an internship with the CRG and her field work in West Bengal.  Email: pasmclean@hotmail.com 

Roopshree Joshi is working as Project Manager for the Tibetan New Arrivals Project, Lutheran World Federation implemented for UNHCR. She is involved in running the Tibetan Reception Centre. Email: roopshreej@gmail.com 

Sahana Basavapatna is a lawyer by training and currently coordinates the Refugee program in a Delhi based Advocacy and Campaigning organization called The Other Media. The organization works with the Burmese, Somali and Afghan refugees primarily in the areas of legal aid and assistance. Email: sahana.basavapatna@gmail.com

Shahiuz Zaman Ahmed is a Senior Faculty Associate, Icfai Research Centre, Kolkata and the Secretary General, 'The Dolphin Trust (An NGO), Kalgachia, Barpeta, Assam. Email: shahiuz@gmail.com