Edited Paula Banerjee (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Foreword by Ranabir Samaddar. The Grid: The stateless and the citizen/Paula Banerjee, Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury and Atig Ghosh. 1. Words of law, worlds of loss: the stateless people of the Indo-Bangladeshi enclaves/Atig Ghosh. 2. The remains of partition? The citizenship question of stateless Hindus in India/Sahana Basavapatna. 3. Ordeal of citizenship: the up-country Tamils in Sri Lanka and India/Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury. 4. The Chinese of Calcutta: a case of statelessness/Suhit K. Sen. 5. The stateless Chakmas in Arunachal Pradesh/Samir Kumar Das and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury. 6. Elusive home-thoughts: the unstable world of the Lhotsampas in South Asia/Atig Ghosh and Pravina Gurung. 7. Ambiguous identities: statelessness of Gorkhas in North-East India/Anup Shekhar Chakraborty and Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty. Bibliography. Index. Statelessness is defined as the quality of being without a state, a nationality, or even the protection that nationality should offer. Addressing the lacuna in literature on stateless people in post-colonial South Asia, this study brings together the lived experiences of diverse stateless groups within a comparative framework. Through research conducted across dissimilar groups in different geographical locations-India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan-it asks some critical questions: How are certain groups and communities-often, the minorities-rendered stateless? Is the existing legal regime adequate to deal with the problem of statelessness? And do policymakers now need to think beyond legal terms, as judicial activism has clearly proved ineffective? Demonstrating that continued situations of dislocation and/or refugeehood can produce statelessness, the book elaborates a new way of thinking about this increasingly important field of study and suggests a way towards framing better and more inclusive international and national laws to deal with this issue. With its cross-disciplinary approach, this volume will be invaluable for undergraduate and postgraduate students of international relations, political science, law, history and refugee studies. It will also be useful to research centres and non-governmental organisations working on/with stateless and refugee groups across the world.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Barbara Ramusack, Charles Phelps 'Taft Professor Emerita, University of Cincinnati and Geraldine Forbes, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita, State University of New York, Oswego, are leading scholars in charting the field of Indian women's history for a Global audience. Through their tireless efforts they were associated with the emergence of a women's history of India from the 1970's onwards and actively trained, mentored, and inspired students who came their way. The editors, Padma Anagol, Paula Banerjee and Swapna Banerjee, mentored by the professors, have showcased their work and its impact on three generations of scholars. This insightful collection has four Parts: I Recovery and Reminiscences; II Feminism: Agency and Resistance; III Activism; and IV Reflections. By restoring women's history, voices, and agency, this volume weaves a rich tapestry of Indian feminism and bonds various communities of women. This volume will be a valuable resource not only for students and scholars interested in the rich history of Indian women but also for those interested in furthering their knowledge in the evolution of gender and women's studies in India, both as a discipline and as a career in the American, Indiana and European Academies.

Hardcover. Condition: New. A sudden announcement was made by the government on 24 March 2020 of a complete lockdown of the country, due to the spectre of Coronavirus. India's Migrant Workers and the Pandemic was being written as the crisis was unfolding with no end in sight. Migrant workers from different parts of India had no choice but to trek back hundreds of kilometres carrying their scanty belongings and dragging their hungry and thirsty children in the scorching heat of the plains of India to reach home.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. In South Asia, political liberation resulted in the partition of states, leading to huge flows of refugees who faced horrific, indescribable violence. In addition there are the internally displaced people (IDPs), religious and ethnic minorities, indigenous people, dalits and the urban poor who get displaced many times over. Persecution and discrimination occur together. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) responded with a Ten-Point Plan of Action for Refugee Protection and Mixed Migration. This was the focus of a two-day dialogue on 'Protection Strategies in South Asia' organized by Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group (MCRG), resulting in this comprehensive collection, compiled by social scientists, media analysts and activists. It offers an analysis of the principles of protection, their inadequate implementation; the disparity between economic growth and human development indices that leads to massive human flows: refugees, IDPs or economic migrants.