Kolkata, 15-20 November 2021
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Module A: Protection and Punishment (race, caste, and policing)
Coordinator: Nasreen Chowdhory, Delhi University, Delhi & CRG
Module B: Migrant workers and the refugee: complicated terrains of welfare and asymmetric social protection
Coordinator: Manish K. Jha, TISS, Mumbai & CRG and Mouleshri Vyas, TISS, Mumbai & CRG
1. "Action Aid Association (India). “Workers in the time of COVID-19: Round 1 of the National Study on Informal Workers.” August, 2020 2. Arnold, Dennis, and Joseph R. Bongiovi. “Precarious, Informalizing and Flexible Work: Transforming Concepts and Understandings.” American Behavioral Scientist 20, no. 10 (2012): 1-20 3. ‘Centre for Equity Studies. “Labouring Lives: Hunger Precarity and Despair Amid Lockdown.” June 2020' 4. Chamie, Joseph. “International Migration amid a World in Crisis.” Journal of Migration and Human Security 8, no. 3 (2020): 23-245. 5. Dasgupta, Monica. “Public Health in India: Dangerous Neglect.” Economic and Political Weekly 40, no. 49 (2005): 51-59. 6. Duggal, Ravi. “Mumbai’s Struggles with Public Health Crises, From Plague to Covid- 19.” Economic and Political Weekly 55, no. 21 (2020): 17-20 7. Hans, Asha, Kalpana Kannabiran, Manoranjan Mohanty, and Pushpendra, eds. Migration, Workers, And Fundamental Freedoms: Pandemic Vulnerabilities and States of Exception in India. New York: Routledge, 2021. 8. Hennebry, J. “Falling through the cracks? Migrant workers and the Global Social Protection Floor.” Global Social Policy 14, no. 3 (2014):369-88 9. Jayaram, Nivedita and Divya Verma. “Examining the ‘Labour’ in Labour Migration: Migrant Workers’ Informal Work Arrangements and Access to Labour Rights in Urban Sectors.” The Indian Journal of Labour Economics 63 (2020): 999-1019. 10. Jha, Manish K. “‘Stateless’ Rohingyas: persecution, displacement and complex community development.” Community Development Journal (October 2020) 11. Samaddar, Ranabir, ed. Borders of an Epidemic: COVID-19 and Migrant Workers. Kolkata: Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, 2020 . 12. Samaddar, Ranabir, ed. Burdens of an Epidemic: A Policy perspective on COVID-19 and Migrant Workers. Kolkata: Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, 2020. 13. Sarkar, Aditya. “The Tie That Snapped: Bubonic Plague and Mill Labour in Bombay, 1896–1898.” International Review of Social History 59, no. 2 (2014): 181–214. 14. Sengupta, Sohini, and Manish K. Jha. “Social Policy, COVID-19 and Impoverished Migrants: Challenges and Prospects in Locked Down India.” The International Journal of Community and Social Development 2, no. 2 (2020): 152–72. 15. Shah, A., and Jens Lerche. “Migration and the invisible economies of care: Production, social reproduction and seasonal migrant labour in India.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 45, no. 4 (2020): 719-34. 16. Srivastava, Ravi. “Growing Precarity, Circular Migration and the Lockdown in India.” The Indian Journal of Labour Economics 63 (2020): 79–86. 17. Vyas, Mouleshri, and Manish K. Jha. “Pandemics, Public Health, and Sanitation Workers in Mumbai: Crisis of Work and Life.” Refugee Watch 57 (2021): 14-33. Online Platform 21. https://thewire.in/health/rohingya-refugees-delhi-covid-vaccine |
Module C: Refugees and migrants as subjects of economics, politics, and gender division
Coordinator: Ranabir Samaddar, CRG and Arup Sen, Serampore College, Kolkata & CRG.
Module D: Forced Migration, law and critical jurisprudence
Coordinator: Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, CRG & Rabindra Bharati University
1. Anker, Deborah E. “Refugee Law, Gender and the Human Rights Paradigm.” Harvard Human Rights Journal 15 (2002): 133-54 2. Chaudhury, Sabyasachi Basu Ray. “Dispossession, Un-freedom, Precarity: Negotiating Citizenship Laws in Postcolonial South Asia.” South Atlantic Quarterly 120, no. 1 (2021): 209-19 3. Chaudhury, Sabyasachi Basu Ray, and Ranabir Samaddar, eds. The Rohingya in South Asia: People without A State. Routledge, 2018 4. Chimni, B. S., ed. International Refugee Law: A Reader. New Delhi: Sage, 2000 5. Chimni, B. S. “Status of Refugees in India: Strategic Ambiguity.” In Refugees and the State: Practices of Asylum and Care in India, 1947–2000, edited by Ranabir Samaddar. New Delhi: Sage, 2003 6. Grahl-Madsen, Atle. “Refugees and Refugee Law in a World in Transition.” Michigan Journal of International Law 3, no. 1 (1982): 65-88. 7. Samaddar, Ranabir. “Forced migration situations as exceptions in history?” International Journal of Migration and Border Studies 2, no. 2 (2016): 99-118 |
Module E: Derogation of rights of refugees and migrants, and situations of statelessness
Coordinator: Parivelan K. M., TISS, Mumbai & CRG
Module F: Protection Ethics and Practices of Care and Solidarity
Coordinators: Samir Kumar Das, University of Calcutta & CRG
1. Bourdieu, Pierre. The Logic of Practice. Translated by Richard Nice. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1997 2. Dey, Ishita. “‘Trust’, Sociality and Pandemic.” Society and Culture in South Asia 7, no. 1 (2021): 11-15. 3. Durkheim, Emile. The Division of Labour in Society. Translated by W. D. Halls. New York: The Free Press, 1984 4. Esposito, Roberto. Immunitas: The Protection and Negation of Life. London: Polity, 2011. 5. Malthus, Thomas. An Essay on the Principle of Population as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Goodwin, M. Condorcet and Other Writers. London, 1998. 6. Samaddar, Ranabir. A Pandemic and the Politics of Life. New Delhi: Women Unlimited, 2021 |
Module F: On Ethical Considerations for Research