Research on Migration in South Asia

MAHANIRBAN CALCUTTA RESEARCH GROUP | In the past decades an increasing number of people, especially in the global south, was forced to leave their places of origin. Armed conflicts, the search for better working and living conditions as well as the impacts of climate change have led to ceaseless population flows not only in South Asia. South Asia has noted an increase in cases of humanitarian caseloads, fault lines under forced migration like gender, race, religion, radicalization of refugee and migrant questions as well as questions of statelessness and citizenship, protracted displacement and fractured nature of protection regimes.

Our partner Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group (MCRG) has had a nearly twenty year-long sustained engagement with the theme of forced migration in South Asia. Since 2018 MCRG held two workshops cum conferences on the “State of the Global Protection System for Refugees and Migrants” in collaboration with RLS. In 2020 we continue our joint work with them with the aim to link the larger relevance of local regional population movements in the evolution of a global mandate in order to reframe narratives and to fight prejudices against refugees and migrants.