- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Foreword by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Refugee and Forced Migration Studies in Transition
- Histories of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
- The International Law of Refugee Protection
- Political Theory, Ethics, and Forced Migration
- International Relations and Forced Migration
- Anthropology and Forced Migration
- Sociology and Forced Migration
- Livelihoods and Forced Migration
- Geographies of Forced Migration
- Encampment and Self-Settlement
- Urban Refugees and IDPs
- Protracted Refugee Situations
- Internal Displacement
- Refugees, Diasporas, and Transnationalism
- Forced Migrants as ‘Illegal’ Migrants
- Human Rights and Forced Migration
- UNHCR and Forced Migration
- UNRWA and Palestinian Refugees
- Refugees and Humanitarianism
- State Controls: Borders, Refugees, and Citizenship
- The Securitization of Forced Migration
- Protection Gaps
- Statelessness
- Humanitarian Reform: From Coordination to Clusters
- Conflict and Crisis Induced Displacement
- Development Created Population Displacement
- The Environment-Mobility Nexus: Reconceptualizing the Links between Environmental Stress, (Im)mobility, and Power
- Trafficking
- The Politics of Refugee Voices: Representations, Narratives, and Memories
- Children and Forced Migration
- Gender and Forced Migration
- Older Refugees
- Disability and Forced Migration
- Health and Forced Migration
- Religion and Forced Migration
- The Media and Representations of Refugees and Other Forced Migrants
- Rethinking ‘Durable’ Solutions
- Local Integration
- ‘Voluntary’ Repatriation and Reintegration
- Refugee Resettlement
- Burden Sharing and Refugee Protection
- Forced Migration in West Africa
- Forced Migration in Southern Africa
- Forced Migration in the Great Lakes and Horn of Africa
- Forced Migration in the Middle East and North Africa
- Forced Migration in Broader Central Asia
- Forced Migration in South Asia
- Forced Migration in South-East Asia and East Asia
- Forced Migration in Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific
- Forced Migration in South America
- Forced Migration in Central America and the Caribbean: Cooperation and Challenges
- Forced Migration in North America
- Forced Migration in Europe
- Name Index
- Subject Index
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter examines a wide range of mass displacement scenarios in South Asia, including the impact of the Partition of India and Pakistan, the constitution of and discrimination against stateless populations, and the consequences of development projects across the region. It first looks at the root causes of displacement and the experiences of refugees, internally displaced persons, and other forced migrants in South Asia. In particular, it considers conflict-induced displacement and how development projects have led to internal displacement, along with statelessness in the region. It also highlights the gendered nature of displacement and analyses South Asia’s contemporary displacement situations within a historical context.
Keywords: displacement, South Asia, Partition, India, Pakistan, discrimination, development projects, refugees, statelessness, internally displaced persons
Paula Banerjee is Associate Professor, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Calcutta, and former President of the International Association for Study of Forced Migration.
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- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Foreword by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Refugee and Forced Migration Studies in Transition
- Histories of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
- The International Law of Refugee Protection
- Political Theory, Ethics, and Forced Migration
- International Relations and Forced Migration
- Anthropology and Forced Migration
- Sociology and Forced Migration
- Livelihoods and Forced Migration
- Geographies of Forced Migration
- Encampment and Self-Settlement
- Urban Refugees and IDPs
- Protracted Refugee Situations
- Internal Displacement
- Refugees, Diasporas, and Transnationalism
- Forced Migrants as ‘Illegal’ Migrants
- Human Rights and Forced Migration
- UNHCR and Forced Migration
- UNRWA and Palestinian Refugees
- Refugees and Humanitarianism
- State Controls: Borders, Refugees, and Citizenship
- The Securitization of Forced Migration
- Protection Gaps
- Statelessness
- Humanitarian Reform: From Coordination to Clusters
- Conflict and Crisis Induced Displacement
- Development Created Population Displacement
- The Environment-Mobility Nexus: Reconceptualizing the Links between Environmental Stress, (Im)mobility, and Power
- Trafficking
- The Politics of Refugee Voices: Representations, Narratives, and Memories
- Children and Forced Migration
- Gender and Forced Migration
- Older Refugees
- Disability and Forced Migration
- Health and Forced Migration
- Religion and Forced Migration
- The Media and Representations of Refugees and Other Forced Migrants
- Rethinking ‘Durable’ Solutions
- Local Integration
- ‘Voluntary’ Repatriation and Reintegration
- Refugee Resettlement
- Burden Sharing and Refugee Protection
- Forced Migration in West Africa
- Forced Migration in Southern Africa
- Forced Migration in the Great Lakes and Horn of Africa
- Forced Migration in the Middle East and North Africa
- Forced Migration in Broader Central Asia
- Forced Migration in South Asia
- Forced Migration in South-East Asia and East Asia
- Forced Migration in Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific
- Forced Migration in South America
- Forced Migration in Central America and the Caribbean: Cooperation and Challenges
- Forced Migration in North America
- Forced Migration in Europe
- Name Index
- Subject Index