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Internal Displacement in South Asia
The Relevance of the UN's Guiding Principles
First Edition
Edited by:
- Paula Banerjee - Vice-Chancellor, The Sanskrit College and University
- Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury - Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata and Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group
- Samir Kumar Das - Vice-Chancellor, University of North Bengal
January 2005 | 370 pages | SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
This book deals with the situation of internally displaced people - those who have been forcibly displaced by natural disasters or development projects.
Each chapter is a case study authored by specialists from seven countries - India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Mayanmar and Afghanistan. The latter two countries have been included for their shared ethnic continuities with people of the neighbouring countries. The authors provide recommendations on how to minimize the insecurity of the displaced, as well as suggesting early warning systems as preventive measures to forestall displacement at the outset.
Roberta Cohen and Francis Deng
Foreword
Paula Banerjee, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury and Samir Kumar Das
Introduction
Mossarat Qadeem
Afghanistan
Atta ur Rehman Sheikh
Pakistan
Samir Kumar Das
India
Subir Bhaumik
India's Northeast
Meghna Guhathakurta and Suraiya Begum
Bangladesh
Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury
Burma
Manesh Shreshtha and Bishnu Adhikari
Nepal
Joe William
Sri Lanka
Paula Banerjee
Resisting Erasure
David Fisher
Epilogue
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