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This book examines forced migration of two refugees groups in South Asia. The author discusses the claims of "belonging" of refugees, and asserts that in practice "belonging" can extend beyond the state-centric understanding of membership in South Asian states. She addresses two sets of interrelated questions: what factors determine whether refugees are relocated to their home countries in South Asia, and why do some repatriated groups re-integrate more successfully than others in "post-peace" South Asian states? This book answers these questions through a study of refugees from Sri Lanka and Bangladesh who sought asylum in India and were later relocated to their countries of origin. Since postcolonial societies have a typical kind of state-formation, in South Asia's case this has profoundly shaped questions of belonging and membership. The debate tends to focus on citizenship, making it a benchmark to demarcate inclusion and exclusion in South Asian states. In addition to qualitative analysis, this book includes narratives of Sri Lankan and Chakma refugees in post-conflict and post-peace Sri Lanka and Bangladesh respectively, and critiques the impact of macro policies from the bottom up

David N. Gellner, ed., Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia. New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan. 2014. 322 pages. ₹ 875.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Methodologies and the Production of Knowledge in Forced Migration Contexts -- Chapter 2: Life In Conflict: Exploring the lived experiences of the forced migrants in a Camp -- Chapter 3: What Is Feminist About Studying Women's Forced Migration -- Chapter 4: Camp as the Place of Exception in Forced Migration Studies -- Part II: Labour, Development and the Migrant Body -- Chapter 5: If Only I Were a Male? Work, Value and the Female Body -- Chapter 6: Identity Of The Woman Worker: A Dialogue Between Trade Union And Street Theatre: A Study Of Aurat And Woh Bol Uthi -- Chapter 7: Development, Displacement and Sense of Place -- Chapter 8: The Reproductive Laborers of the Indian gestational Surrogacy Market -- Part III: Identity, Borders and Borderland -- Chapter 9: Shifting Sands, Migrants and Mobilities in the Brahmaputra Valley -- Chapter 10: The Legacy of Partition and Structural Victimisation of the People of Border land: A Case of Punjab -- Part IV: Gender, Conflict and Migration -- Chapter 11: Women In India's Maoist Ranks -- Chapter 12: Women, Conflict and Conflict Reporting: The Deeply Gendered Discourse on the Rohingya Crisis in the Indian News Websites -- Chapter 13: Armed unto life: The gun and Maoist Guerrilla women in Nepal -- Chapter 14: Gender and Invisible Migration -Understanding Sex trafficking in India -- Chapter 15: Conclusion.

This book provides an in-depth investigation of citizenship and nationalism in connection with the Rohingya community. It analyses the processes of production of statelessness in South Asia in general, and with regard to the Rohingyas in particular. Following the persecution of the Rohingya community in Myanmar (Burma) by the military and the Buddhist militia, a host of texts, mostly descriptive, have examined the historical, political and cultural roots of the genocidal massacre and the flight of its victims to South Asia and South-East Asian countries. The UNHCR reports describe the plight of Rohingyas during and after their journey, while other works focus on the political-economic roots of this ethnic conflict and its consequences for the Rohingyas. To date, very few theoretical insights have been provided on the Rohingya issue. 0This book seeks to fill that gap, and explores a dialogue between the state and its citizens and non-citizens that results in the production of statelessness. In theoretical terms, the book addresses the construction of citizens and non-citizens on the part of the state, and the process of symbolic othering, achieved through various state practices couched in terms of nationalism. Extensive case studies from India, Myanmar and Bangladesh provide the foundation for a robust theoretical argument. 0Given its scope, the book will be of interest to students, academics and researchers with a focus on political economy in South Asia in general and/or refugee studies in particular

Intro -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: The State, Transborder Movements, and Deterritorialised Identity in South Asia -- Introduction -- The States in South Asia -- Transborder Movements in South Asia -- Territoriality and Deterritorialised Identity -- Transborder Mobility, Borders and Citizenship Dilemmas -- Everyday State and Statelessness -- The Making and (Un)Making of Borders -- Migration in South Asia -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part I: Transborder Mobility, Borders, and Citizenship Dilemmas -- Chapter 2: Borders, Citizenship and the Subaltern in South Asia -- Introduction -- Borders, Bordering and Post-colonial Citizenship -- Historical Origins, Heritages and Lineages -- Movements, Reversals and Erosions -- Post-colonial Citizenship Unbound: The New Subaltern -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Citizenship and Membership: Placing Refugees in India -- Introduction -- Contextualising the Idea of Camps -- Making Citizens: A View from Within -- Rights and Citizenship: The Case of India -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Culture of Migration: State-Society Relations and Transborder Mobility in Northern Sri Lanka -- Introduction -- Colonialism and State Formation -- Migration from Jaffna: A Historical Perspective -- The Nationalist State: From Educational to Forced Migration -- Diaspora Formation, the LTTE and Experiments with Stateness -- Diaspora and the LTTE State-Building Project -- The Militarised State: Reconciliation as a Way Forward? -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Everyday State and Statelessness -- Chapter 5: The State, Vulnerability, and Transborder Movements: The Rohingya People in Myanmar and Bangladesh -- Introduction -- Rohingyas: Identity and the Genesis of Crisis -- The State Accelerates "Transborder Movement" -- The State Produces Vulnerability.

Migration is broadly interpreted to mean the movement of people for accessing better life prospects. However, when we deconstruct this phenomenon of 'movement of people' to the 'movement of single women' this brings forth intricacies of gender equations which further problematises migration outcomes, when women struggle to navigate their space and negotiate with the gendered challenges of a new city. Nevertheless, it is this nature of migration which can be explored to evaluate the empowerment of women. In this context, the article argues that when women choose to migrate as independent individuals for accessing education and employment, they experience empowerment which is manifested in their exercise of choice, autonomy and freedom in a new city.

This powerful book explicates the many ways in which colonial encounters continue to shape forced migration, ever evolving with times and various geographical contexts. Bringing historians, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and criminologists together, the book presents examples of forced migration events and politics ranging from the 18th century to the practices and geopolitics of the present day. These case studies, covering Europe, Africa, North America, Asia and South America, are then put in dialogue with each other to propose new theoretical and real-world agendas for the field. As the pervasive legacies of colonialism continue to shape global politics, this unprecedented book moves beyond critique, ahistoricity and Eurocentrism in refugee and forced migration studies and establishes postcoloniality and forced migration as an important field of migration research