ABSTRACT
This handbook marks a key intervention in refugee studies in India—home to diverse groups of refugees, including an entire government in exile. It unravels the various socio-economic, political, and cultural dimensions of refugee issues in India.
The volume examines the various legal, political, and policy frameworks for accommodating refugees or asylum seekers in India, including the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Registry of Citizens. It evaluates the lack of uniformity in the Indian legal and political framework to deal with its refugee population and analyzes the grounds of inclusion or exclusion for different groups. Drawing from the experiences of Jewish, Tibetan, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Afghan, and Rohingya refugees in India, it analyzes debates around marginalization, citizenship, and refugee rights. It also explores the spatial and gendered dimensions of forced migration and the cultural and social lives of displaced communities, including their quest for decent work, education, and health.
The volume will be an indispensable reference for scholars, lawyers, researchers, and students of refugee studies, migration and diaspora studies, public policy, social policy and development studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|32 pages
Introduction
part II|66 pages
Constitution and refugees
chapter 3|14 pages
The state of being stateless
part III|112 pages
Refugee law and policy
chapter 10|13 pages
International refugee law and the Indian state
part IV|52 pages
Statelessness
part V|80 pages
Refugees
chapter 23|13 pages
Education and lifelong learning for refugees
part VI|12 pages
Jewish refugees
part VII|140 pages
Rohingya refugees
chapter 30|22 pages
Statelessness-citizenship continuum
part VIII|24 pages
Sindhi refugees
part IX|32 pages
Pakistani and Bangladeshi Hindu refugees
part X|50 pages
Tibetan refugees
part XI|114 pages
Sri Lankan refugees
chapter 52|7 pages
The contribution of forced colonial migration to the refugee crisis
chapter 54|20 pages
Spatial dimensions in narratives of history
part XII|32 pages
Afghan refugees
chapter 56|15 pages
Cast away
part XIII|122 pages
Emerging issues