Assignments 2006
Module A / Module B / Module C / Module D / Module E / Module F
Forced migration, racism, immigration and xenophobia
Write a note on how the syllabus and the reading material of this course connect the four key words of this module - forced migration, racism, immigration, and xenophobia - and build on the basis of these linkages an orientation course on forced migration.
OR
Prepare and present a fact sheet of newspaper reports (4 pages) on an event or topic related to any of the four themes mentioned in the title of the module and show thereby how a refugee situation or that of internal displacement is created.
OR
Discuss with the help of case studies the various elements involved in the "right to return" and argue in the context of those elements if the right to return can be considered as a substantive one or otherwise.
Or
Write a note on the context of the phrase, "mixed and massive flows" of migration, and show how this situation affects the task of protecting the refugees.
(For Terms Papers)
MODULE B
Gender
dimensions of forced migration, vulnerabilities, and justice
On the basis of a close reading of B.S. Chimni’s Reader address the debate: is it desirable that women be treated as a separate legal category in international and national legal regimes of protection.
OR
Compare the situation of Sri Lankan women IDPs and Afghan refugee women in Pakistan.
OR
Why listening to women’s experiences and chronicling them is particularly relevant for understanding refugee situations in South Asia.
OR
In the context of women’s displacement all over South Asia discuss women’s lack of control over institutional structures of protection.
OR
Is lack of control over resources a reason for women’s displacement? Argue your case with reference to one particular group of women refugees/IDPs.
(For Terms Papers)
MODULE C
International, regional, and the national legal regimes of protection,
sovereignty and the principle of responsibility
Do you think that the category of “well-founded fear” reflects subjectivity
in the definition of refugees as indicated in the Convention Relating to the
Status of Refugees? Comment in the light of the definition adopted by the
OAU Convention.
OR
Examine the principle of
non-refoulement in relation to the policy of
non-entrée.
OR
Do you think that there is a need for a national law on refugees? Argue your
case with reference to experiences of any country.
OR
Explain how the Conclusion No. 39 and 73 adopted by the UNHCR Executive
Committee and the CEDAW have attempted to take into account the special needs of
women refugees.
OR
How the internally displaced persons can return to the places of their habitual residence and/or resettled? Discuss with special reference to Principles 28 and 29 of the UN Guiding Principles.
(For Terms Papers)
Internal displacement with special reference to causes, linkages, and responses
Show how the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement base themselves on human rights and humanitarian legal regimes.
OR
What are the special provisions for Women IDPs in international regimes of protection and care of IDPs. How far have they helped the cause of women’s rehabilitation and care?
OR
On the basis of a close reading of Internal Displacement in South Asia write an essay on how development have often led to displacement in South Asia.
OR
How relevant are the UN Guiding Principles for different countries in South Asia?
OR
When do displacement end?
(For Terms Papers)
Resource politics, environmental degradation, violence and displacement
On the basis of your reading of Meghna Guhathakurta's article "Globalization, Class and Gender Relations: The Shrimp Industry in South-western Bangladesh," Report on the Workshop on Engendering R & R (both available in CRG website) and the chapter entitled "Shefali" in Marginal Nations, analyse how lack of control over resources have led to large-scale displacement of women?
OR
On reading "Development Induced Displacement in Pakistan," in Refugee Watch (available in CRG website) and "Pakistan: Development and Disaster" in Internal Displacement in South Asia, comment on how the developmental model that has been favoured by the Pakistani state have led to large-scale dispossession and displacement of people?
OR
On reading Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury's "Uprooted Twice: Refugees From the Chittagong Hill Tracts," in Refugees and the State do you agree that conflict in CHT is in the last resort a conflict over land.
(For Review Assignments)
MODULE F
Ethics
of care and justice
Review relevant sections on ethics and justice in B.S. Chimni's International Refugee Law: A Reader and comment on the importance of these two issues in rehabilitation and care of refugees.
OR
After reading Ranabir Samaddar's article on "Power, Fear, Ethics," in Refugee Watch critically discuss "fear" as a factor in the displacement of vulnerable groups.
OR
Critically analyse Peter Penz's article on "Development, displacement and International Ethics," and comment how ethical it is to displace people for reasons of development?
(For Review Assignments)