migrants – Itisaras

State of refugee law in contemporary times: In conversation with Suraj Girijashanker

June 20, 2020July 14, 2020 Editor 0 Comments 1951 Refugee Convention, Bangladesh, camps, challenges, communities, COVID-19, Cox’s Bazar, EU-Turkey deal, expert, gender, global north, global south, human rights, humanitarian, Justice, lawyer, legal, Legal Aid, LGBTQ community, malnourishment, migrants, organisation, outbreak diseases, overcrowding, politicised, Politics, poor sanitation, refugee day, refugee law, refugee rights, Revolution, settlements, Social Justice, Sri Lankan Tamils, Tibetans, UNHCR, United Nations, xenophobia

Refugees across the globe, more often than not have been subjected to crisis in some way or the other. The displacement of livelihood once, becomes a running metaphor throughout their lives. ITISARAS conducted a very informative interview with Suraj Girijashanker, a Refugee law expert.
This World Refugee Day lets gain more insights into the realities of refugees.

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Assamese Nationalism and the Project of Enclosing History

April 21, 2020April 22, 2020 Editor 1 Comment Asomiya, Assam, Assam Accord, Assamese, Bangladesh, Bengal, Bengalis, Britain, Culture, Government, groups, historiographic, historiography, History, identity, illegal, linguistic, Memorandum, migrants, minorities, Miyahs, Muslims, National Register of Citizens, nationalist, Nellie Massacre, NRC, Pakistan, past, Postcolonial, present, social groups, Society

In the midst of an outbreak of violence all across India over CAA and NRC, one often fails to ignore the intricacies linked with the history of each region, especially that of Assam which initiate a different debate altogether. Don’t we all then agree that a rich understanding can only be achieved when these regional intricacies which form the collective, are together analyzed?