Refugees and the State

Refugees and the State Practices of Asylum and Care in India, 1947-2000

SAGE India
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Contents
 
Foreword Augustine Mahiga
Ranabir Samaddar
Introduction - Power and Care
Building the New Indian State

 
Paula Banerjee
Aliens in a Colonial World
Samir Kumar Das
State Response to the Refugee Crisis
Relief and Rehabilitation in the East

 
Ritu Menon
Birth of Social Security Commitments
What Happened in the West

 
Subir Bhaummik
The Returnees and the Refugees
Migration from Burma

 
K C Saha
The Genocide of 1971 and the Refugee Influx in the East
Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury
Uprooted Twice
Refugees from the Chittagong Hill Tracts

 
Rajesh Kharat
Gainers of a Stalemate
The Tibetans in India

 
V Suryanarayan
Sheltering Civilians and Warriors
Entanglements in the South

 
Asha Hans
Refugee Women and Children
Need for Protection and Care

 
Sarbani Sen
Paradoxes of the International Regime of Care
The Role of the UNHCR in India

 
B S Chimni
Status of Refugees in India
Strategic Ambiguity

 
 
Bibliography
 
Index
Independent Customer Reviews
Contributors: 

Ranabir Samaddar

Ranabir Samaddar is the Director of the Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, and belongs to the school of critical thinking. He has worked extensively on issues of justice and rights in the context of conflicts in South Asia.

Samaddar’s particular researches have spread over a wide area comprising migration and refugee studies, the theory and practices of dialogue, nationalism and postcolonial statehood in South Asia, and new regimes of technological restructuring and labour control.

His recent political writings The Emergence of the Political Subject (2009) and The Nation Form (2012) have signalled a new turn in critical postcolonial thinking and have challenged some of the prevailing accounts of the birth of nationalism and the nation state.