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Comment by Sucharita Sengupta Immigration continues to be treated as one of the most contentious topics in USA, more so, because USA is a na...

One of history's most fiercely contested landscapes, the 2,270 square miles of territory known as the West Bank was under the control of...

Physicians for Human Rights released the report, STATELESS AND STARVING – Persecuted Rohingya Flee Burma and Starve in Bangladesh on 9 March...

Ishita Dey The very nature of “borderlands” is ambiguous for a person forced to flee, people have been forced to take various avenues to mig...

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) published its Urban Refugee policy, titled 'UNHCR Policy on refugee protection a...

Migrants are a sensitive political issue in Mumbai, with regional political parties, the Shiv Sena and the newly formed, the Maharashtra Nav...

Urmimala Sengupta [This write up is a part of a study on a project titled” An initiative for peaceful co-existence: a look into the conflict...

Sucharita Sengupta The book entitled ‘The Chittagong Hill Tracts; living in a borderland’ written by Willem van Schendel, Wolfgang Mey &...

Sivaprashanthi. Thambaiah ( Shanthi) [Translated by : Sarvarakshani. Thambaiah ( Rakshi) ] Didn’t see my mom’s face Didn’t touch my dad’s ha...

Sarvarakshanthi. Thambaiah [Inspired by a photograph by a SriLankan blogger whose name unknown] It was all like a bad dream Of yester years ...

Mohamed Feroz Pakkeer Mohideen Introduction End of war does not mean end of displacement and its consequential effects. The displaced people...

Geetisha Dasgupta The Gangavaram port in Visakhapatnam was inaugurated on 12 July 2009 with much celebration. The new port, which became ope...

Ishita Dey Walter Fernandes in “Climate Change or Climate Justice in the North East” published in The Assam Tribune argues that the politic...

Ishita Dey Findings of a study by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the Internal Displacement Monit...

Geetisha Dasgupta The Salva Judum (meaning the Peace Hunt) was constituted in Chattisgarh to make way for peaceful acquisition of the natura...

Priyanca Mathur Velath On 18 October, 2009, China revealed an ‘official’ plan to relocate a huge population of people who would be displaced...

Suha Priyadarshini Chakravorty Despite the Obama Administration’s assurance to alter the functionality of the Detention System, not much has...

Chitra Ahanthem As I sit down to write this post on the nature of media reporting on the issues faced by people living in border town of Mor...

Supurna Banerjee Embarking a crowded train from Sealdah on my first ever field visit to Nadia I was in no way prepared for the experience th...