Description
UPL State Society and Displaced People in South Asia by Imtiaz and Ahmed and Abhijit Dasgupta and Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff
Contributed articles presented earlier at a seminar on South Asian refugees and their transnational migration. x, 353 pages : Illustrations, map ; 22 cm. Contents: "God is a refugee": nationality, morality and history in the 1947 partition of India / Gautam Ghosh -- Unwanted 'Harijans': partition and the displacement of scheduled castes in Bengal / Abhijit Dasgupta -- Away from home: the movement and settlement of refugees from East Pakistan in West Bengal, India / Tetsuya Nakatani -- Partition migration in Assam: the case of the Sylheti Bhadralok / Anindita Dasgupta -- From 'displaced person' to being 'a local': cross-border refugees and invisible refugees in Ranchi / Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff -- Questioning access and accountability in South Asia / Sumit Sen -- Coping with refugees in India: the case of Chakma repatriation / Nasreen Chowdhory -- 'I am not a refugee': rethinking partition migration / Mahbubar Rahman and Willem van Schendel -- An untold story of the partition: the Garos of northern Mymensingh / Ellen Bal -- Refugees and civil society: Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh / Imtiaz Ahmed -- Migration, multiculturalism and 'Peace City': the experience of Karachi / Syed Sikander Mehdi -- Insecurity/security Afghan refugees and politics in Pakistan / Saba Gul Khattak.