CfP: Research and Orientation Workshop in Migration and Forced Migration Studies | 25-30 November | CRG, Kolkata

Research and Orientation Workshop in Migration and Forced Migration Studies

25-30 November 2018

CRG, Kolkata 

Applications are invited for a Research and Orientation Workshop to be held in Kolkata from 25 November to 30 November 2018. The workshop will be held by Calcutta Research Group (CRG) in collaboration with the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. It will address the following themes: 

(a) Global compact on migration and refugees; promises and paradoxes;

(b) Racialisation of migration: race, religion, gender, and other fault lines in the global protection system; 

(c) Power and responsibility in the protection system (global, regional, and national) in the context of mixed and massive population fl ows; the need to redefi ne the "responsibility to protect"; 

(d) Migrant and refugee labour and immigrant economies, camps, and urban refugees; privatisation of care and protection; 

(e) Statelessness, international conventions, and the need for new initiatives; 

(f) Refugee crisis in Asia, in particular South Asia: common features with the Europeans scenario; and 

(g) Perspectives on the need for New Global, Regional, and National Responses (with special reference to Asia).

Research papers relevant to the themes mentioned above will be presented by selected participants in the workshop which will deliberate on the findings, and reports will be prepared in the working group discussions. These reports will be presented in a plenary conference with which the programme will end. 

Applicants must have (a) experience in research work in migration and forced migration studies or policy work in relevant areas, or, at least 5 years' experience in the work through different mediums for the protection of the migrants and the victims of forced migration, and (b) profi ciency in English. Besides giving all necessary particulars an application must be accompanied by two recommendation letters and a 1,000 word write-up on how the applicant's work is relevant to the themes of the workshop.

Selected participants from South Asia will have to pay a registration fee of Rs. 5,000 (or USD 100) and from outside South Asia USD 500. CRG will provide board and lodging for six nights. Inquiries relating to the application process are welcome. Application form can be downloaded from the CRG website www.mcrg.ac.in.

Application addressed to the Programme Coordinator can be sent by email to anita@mcrg.ac.in with cc to ankita@mcrg.ac.in or by post to the following address – Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, GC 45 (first floor), Sector 3, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700106, West Bengal, India (ph: 033-23370408). Last date of application is 30 April 2018. Further Details