About calcutta research group (crg)

MCRG-360 INFO collaboration on migration

360info is an open-access global information agency that reflects critical opinions on the contemporary challenges in the field of environment, geopolitics, mental health, conflicts, war and displacement. This global media initiative – a bridge between universities and media -- is hosted by Monash University, Australia.
Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group in collaboration with 360info brings to you a series of special reports on the changing face of migration. These reports by researchers from across the globe can be accessed here
Shock Mobility (June 2023) Click Here
Cities after colonialism (January 2023) Click Here
Migration's changing face (June 2022) Click Here
Rohingya conundrum: Stateless, helpless and unwanted (March 2024) Click Here
Professor Ranabir Sammadar on the importance of media attention toward shock mobility.

Refugee Watch & Refugee Watch Online

Refugee Watch, the biannual, peer-reviewed and refereed flagship journal of the Calcutta Research Group that offers a space for debate on refugees, forced migration, displacement, statelessness and related issues will be merging with its online co-publication, Refugee Watch Online, which primarily presents brief news, reports, views and comments pertaining to the human rights of the forcibly displaced. Refugee Watch and Refugee Watch Online will be operating from a common dedicated website shortly.
The Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group is working with the Forced Migration Research Archive (FMRA) to help ensure that articles published in the Refugee Watch journal are preserved over the long-term. The FMRA is a new subject-focused repository hosted by YorkSpace at Canada’s York University. It was established to provide scholars a free and easy way to make their research openly accessible. We hereby invite all Refugee Watch authors to provide permission to archive their articles in the FMRA using this form:
https://refugeeresearch.net/ms/fmra/rwsubmission-form/. Authors may also be contacted directly by FMRA team members from the "FMresearcharchive@gmail.com" email address. We support this important endeavor and strongly encourage authors to participate!  

COVID 19 AND MIGRANT WORKERS

Essential Links on Calcutta Research Group’s Works on Migration and Forced Migration Studies

  • 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,see: CLICK HERE

  • The Calcutta Research Group has organised annual Winter Courses on Forced Migration from 2003 to 2013. For details such as course modules, readings, assignments and reports,see: CLICK HERE

  • The fourteenth Conference of the International Association for Studies in Forced Migration (IASFM) on ‘Contested Spaces & Cartographic Challenges’ was hosted by the Calcutta Research Group during January 6-9, 2013. This was the first time that the conference was hosted in South Asia. For details see: CLICK HERE

  • An extensive campaign and detailed study of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the form of workshops, roundtables and public lectures has been initiated by the Calcutta Research Group. For details see:CLICK HERE || For reports on IDPs, see: CLICK HERE

  • For a detailed information on significant works on IDPs, such as Internal Displacement in South Asia (Edited By Paula Banerjee, Sabyasachi Basu Roy Chowdhury, Samir Kumar Das, Thousand Oaks, California, New Delhi, London: Sage Publishers, 2005) see: CLICK HERE

  • Calcutta Research Group’s study on forced migration focuses on state policies in South Asia and elsewhere with relation to refugee rights, gender rights, refugee care and forced displacement. For details on the subject of refugee studies, see: CLICK HERE

  • For particulars on important publications on migration and refugees such as Refugees in West Bengal – Institutional Practices and Contested Identities (Edited by Pradip Kumar Bose, Calcutta : Calcutta Research Group, 2000); Refugees and the State-Practices of Asylum and Care in India, 1947-2000 (Edited by Ranabir Samaddar, Thousand Oaks, California, New Delhi, London: Sage Publishers, 2003); Unstable Populations, Anxious States: Mixed and Massive Population Flows in South Asia (Edited by Paula Banerjee, Calcutta: Stree Publishers 2013) & Migration and Circles of Insecurity (Ranabir Samaddar and Paula Banerjee, New Delhi: Rupa & Co, 2010) see:CLICK HERE

  • Calcutta Research Group has a peer-reviewed and refereed journal; Refugee Watch that offers an analysis of migration and forced migration from a distinctively South Asian perspective. It can be accessed at CLICK HERE || The Fleeing People of South Asia, A Collection of Essays from Refugee Watch, (Edited by Sibaji Pratim Basu, London: Anthem Press, 2009) can be accessed at CLICK HERE

  • Calcutta Research Group has a dynamic blog site that offers news, perspectives and research articles on migration, forced migration and displacement; Refugee Watch online can be accessed at CLICK HERE

  • In 2015, Calcutta Research Group introduced the position of a Distinguished Chair for Migration and Forced Migration Studies. For details on the activities of the Distinguished Chair, Professor Ranabir Samaddar and links related to the issue of migration and forced migration, see: CLICK HERE
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    In Loving Memory


    Ninth Annual Research and Orientation Workshop and Conference  

    Workshop

    Conference

    public lecture of City Lights

    Justice,Security, and Vulnerable Populations of South Asia

    SOUTH ASIA NETWORK FOR COMMUNICATION, DISPLACEMENT AND MIGRATION

    This network is hosted by Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group and supported by Deutsche Welle Akademie to facilitate greater representation of refugees and displaced persons in media. Via the network, we will share each other’s’ work, connect journalists with academics (and vice versa), hold events based on the network members’ expertise, and do whatever we can to facilitate greater representation of refugees and displaced persons in media.... Read More

    recent Publications


    Play List

    Reading Refugees Reading Migration: Lectures from the (Online) Orientation Course for College and University Teachers A CRG Series in the Corona Times: Six Lectures on Migrants and Refugees

    previous CRG Webinars, 2020


  • Previous CRG Webinars, 2020... CLICK HERE

    • Audio and Video Resources


  • Archives of Audio and Video Resources .... CLICK HERE     

     Index of Living Archive on Covid-19 & Migrant Worker .... CLICK HERE

    • Krishna Trust

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    Late Krishna Bhattacharya was a founder member of Calcutta Research Group. Krishna Trust, set up in her memory, works for the education and health of women. CRG plans to collaborate more deeply and meaningfully with the activities of Krishna Trust. This will be an humble effort on the part of CRG towards providing service to our society. For details of Krishna Trust.

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