The Politics Of Refugees In South Asia

Author : Navine Murshid
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134502273
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Refugees in South Asia written by Navine Murshid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partition and post-colonial migrations – sometimes voluntary, often forced – have created borders in South Asia that serve to oppress rather than protect. Migrants and refugees feel their real home lies beyond the border, and liberation struggles continue the quest for freedoms that have proven to be elusive for many. States scapegoat refugees as "outsiders" for their own ends, justifying the denial of their rights, while academic discourse on refugees represents them either as victims or as terrorists. Taking a stance against such projections, this book examines refugees’ struggles for better living conditions and against marginalization. By analyzing protest and militarization among refugees, the book argues that they are neither victims without agency nor war entrepreneurs. Through interviews, surveys, and statistical analyses, it shows how states have manipulated refugee identity and resistance to promote the ideal of the nation-state, thereby creating protracted refugee crises. This is evident even in the most humanitarian state intervention in modern South Asia – India’s military intervention in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in 1971. The findings put forward provide the basis to understand the conditions under which violence can break out, and thereby have implications for host countries, donor countries, and aid organizations in the formulation of refugee‐policy. The book is of interest to scholars in the fields of South Asian studies, comparative politics, international relations, refugee studies, development studies, security studies and peace studies.

Author : Navine Murshid
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134502346
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Refugees in South Asia written by Navine Murshid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partition and post-colonial migrations – sometimes voluntary, often forced – have created borders in South Asia that serve to oppress rather than protect. Migrants and refugees feel their real home lies beyond the border, and liberation struggles continue the quest for freedoms that have proven to be elusive for many. States scapegoat refugees as "outsiders" for their own ends, justifying the denial of their rights, while academic discourse on refugees represents them either as victims or as terrorists. Taking a stance against such projections, this book examines refugees’ struggles for better living conditions and against marginalization. By analyzing protest and militarization among refugees, the book argues that they are neither victims without agency nor war entrepreneurs. Through interviews, surveys, and statistical analyses, it shows how states have manipulated refugee identity and resistance to promote the ideal of the nation-state, thereby creating protracted refugee crises. This is evident even in the most humanitarian state intervention in modern South Asia – India’s military intervention in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in 1971. The findings put forward provide the basis to understand the conditions under which violence can break out, and thereby have implications for host countries, donor countries, and aid organizations in the formulation of refugee‐policy. The book is of interest to scholars in the fields of South Asian studies, comparative politics, international relations, refugee studies, development studies, security studies and peace studies.

Author : Nasreen Chowdhory
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811301972
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Refugees, Citizenship and Belonging in South Asia written by Nasreen Chowdhory and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines forced migration of two refugees groups in South Asia. The author discusses the claims of “belonging” of refugees, and asserts that in practice “belonging” can extend beyond the state-centric understanding of membership in South Asian states. She addresses two sets of interrelated questions: what factors determine whether refugees are relocated to their home countries in South Asia, and why do some repatriated groups re-integrate more successfully than others in “post-peace” South Asian states? This book answers these questions through a study of refugees from Sri Lanka and Bangladesh who sought asylum in India and were later relocated to their countries of origin. Since postcolonial societies have a typical kind of state-formation, in South Asia’s case this has profoundly shaped questions of belonging and membership. The debate tends to focus on citizenship, making it a benchmark to demarcate inclusion and exclusion in South Asian states. In addition to qualitative analysis, this book includes narratives of Sri Lankan and Chakma refugees in post-conflict and post-peace Sri Lanka and Bangladesh respectively, and critiques the impact of macro policies from the bottom up.

Author : Antara Datta
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415524725
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Refugees and Borders in South Asia written by Antara Datta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The war in 1971 between India and Pakistan led to a huge refugee crisis. This book argues that the massive influx of ten million refugees into India within a few short months changed ideas about citizenship and belonging in South Asia.The book looks at how the Indian state, while generously keeping its borders open to the refugees, made it clear that these refugees were different from those generated by Partition, and would not be allowed to settle permanently. It discusses how the state was breaking its 'effective' link between refugees and citizenship, and how at the same time a second 'affective' border was developing between those living in the border areas, especially in Assam and West Bengal. The book argues that the present discourse regarding illegal infiltration from Bangladesh has a long historical trajectory in which the events of 1971 play a key role. It goes on to analyse the aftermath of the 1971 war and the massive repatriation project undertaken by the governments of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh to examine ways in which questions about minorities and belonging remained unresolved post-1971.The book is an interesting contribution to the history of refugees, border-making and 1971 in South Asia, as well as to studies in politics and international relations"--Provided by publisher

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780367613525
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Refugees in South Asia written by Taylor & Francis Group and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : S. D. Muni
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Refugees and Regional Security in South Asia written by S. D. Muni and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains papers presented at a seminar.

Author : Debasish Nandy
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781433194955
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Refugees, Migration, and Conflicts in South Asia written by Debasish Nandy and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2022-08-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes an interdisciplinary in-depth study of refugees, migration, conflicts, and development in the South Asian region. By depicting the socio-economic and security aspects of migration along with human security, this book has projected the vulnerability of this region.

Author : Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231138474
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia written by Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian history.

Author : Ujjaini Mukhopadhyay
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811661448
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Internal Migration Within South Asia written by Ujjaini Mukhopadhyay and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically discusses the multi-dimensional contemporary issues within the ambit of the driving forces, mechanisms, vulnerability, and opportunities of the intra-region human movement in South Asia. It covers different dimensions of cross-border migration within South Asia as well as internal migration particularly in India, reflecting upon both voluntary and forced movements. It traces the trajectory and past trends in migration in the South Asian countries. It evaluates the vulnerability of refugees and stateless vis-à-vis state policies. Issues regarding Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to Bangladesh, Nepalese immigration to India, the crisis around Sri Lankan Tamil refugees, Afghan returnee refugees from Pakistan and Iran, resettlement of Bhutanese refugees are explored in the chapters. It also analyzes the impact on wage inequality due to emigration, the crucial role of social capital in migration decisions, and socio-economic vulnerabilities of women migrants in India. This book provides a clear understanding of international and internal migration in South Asia for students and academics, and a valuable resource for policy-makers and planners in development studies, regional development, and South Asian studies.

Author : Stellina Jolly
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811331375
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climate Refugees in South Asia written by Stellina Jolly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the forms of legal protection extended to people displaced due to the consequences of climate change, and who have either become refugees by crossing international borders or are climatically displaced persons (CDPs) in their own homelands. It explores the legal response of the South Asian Jurisdictions to these refugee-like situations, and also to what extent these people are protected under current international law. The book critically examines and assesses whether States have obligations to protect people displaced by climate change under international refugee law (IRL) and international climate change law (ICCL). It discusses the issue of climate migration in South Asia, analyzes the legal and judicial response initiated by South Asian nations, and also investigates the role of SAARC in relation to climate change and climate refugees. Drawing on the International Legal Standards and States’ Practices in South Asia regarding climate refugees, the book shows how IRL, ICCL, and IHRL (international human rights law) have been used to address and identify the gaps in the global legal protection framework concerning the contours of the normative debate on climate refugees, climate change displacement, migration, forced migration, susceptibility to climate change, typology of climate change-induced displacement, role of the SAARC and its municipal legal systems, approaches to climate change, human mobility and developing a hybrid regional law, or advocating a legal alternative of equal measure in a region characterized by diversity and multiculturalism. The book offers valuable takeaways for students, researchers, consultants, practitioners and policymakers alike.