faculties from the varied fields ranging from the academicians from the educational and research institutions, Inter governmental institutions, non-governmental agencies and the activists involved at the grass roots level who are involved in the field studies. To mention here, in specific, the faculties invited for this course were from all the corners of the world. Thus, it has not only represented views expressed by the scholars from South Asia but also helped to receive the viewpoints from those scholars who are not from South Asia but working on South Asian issues. 
Participants in this course too were from the all the corners of the world, and have provided equal representation and a platform on equal footing to those who are working on different issues of IDPs and refuges with multi-dimensional approach. One important thing to be noticed is that day-by-day the participants who are coming to this course are very young and ranging from age 25 to 40 years. This helps the course organizers to receive a feed back from the young generation who are other wise generally criticized as one of the most vulnerable and victims of globalization process. However as a policy one found that most of the participants were female participants.
Most of the faculties as well as participants agreed that the sessions during the Course were interactive, debatable and provocative to some extent particularly on sensitive issues like feminism.

15. Follow-Up Activities 

Considering the growing popularity of the course the advisory committee requested the CRG organisers to look into the possibilities of organizing short courses in collaboration with willing centres and departments of Universities in India as follow-up activity. On the basis of such advice the CRG is now in the process of designing a number of short courses for different Universities and research centres. This year one such short course will be held in Hyderabad from 22-24 February 2008 in collaboration with Asmita Collective, a Hyderabad based organisation. The focus of the workshop would be on gender and refugee law, women in camps, climate change and its impact on women and internal displacement situation in South India. The workshop is meant for young academics, human rights activists, media-persons and lawyers. CRG is now actively involved in designing the short course to be held in February 2008.  

Fellowship Programme 

This year three fellowships were given to the participants of the Winter Course. Tina Kanninen from Finland and spent a month in CRG in December 2007 working on the theme, Calcutta: A Migrants City. Two Indian participants, Ishita Dey and Sanam Roohi will be sent to Finland for a week in March 2008 and they plan to do a study on guest workers in Finland.

Report by Tiina Kanninen, CRG Junior Research Fellow from Finland
Tiina Kanninen is currently working on her Master’s Thesis Titled as “Refugees, Camps and Practices of Humanitarianism: Liminal Subjects in Spaces of