Refugee Watch online is a co-publication of Refugee Watch on the flow of refugees, other victims of forced migration, and the internally displaced persons in South Asia. It presents news and views, critiques and analyses of policies of the States and international humanitarian institutions with regard to forced migration and forced population flows across the borders in this region. It stresses the need for a broad legal framework for this region with regard to refugee protection and protection of other victims of forced displacement.
This BBC video-clip describes the latest ingenious project from Sugata Mitra, an Indian-born professor at Newcastle University. You'll most likely know Mitra from his Hole in the Wall computers set into the walls of buildings in India's poorest slums. Mitra's new project uses the "UK Granny Cloud" -- a large group of British grannies who've agreed to volunteer an hour a week to tutor Indian classrooms over Skype video conferences -- to supplement education in Indian schools where there is a shortage of teachers.
This case study is part of the ODI HPG research programme on the role of the affected state in humanitarian action. It aims to describe the essential elements of India’s approach to disaster management as seen in its response to the 2001 Gujarat earthquake and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The study also analyses policy trends in India’s disaster response, focussing on the 2005 Disaster Management Act.
The present paper deals with migration from Kerala to Italy and explores the way in which marriage – as one of the most important life-cycle rituals – intertwines with experiences of geographical and social mobility. Particularly it explores the way in which migration contributes to a redefinition of marriage’s symbolic and material meanings – in terms of spouse’s selections and marriage payments - as well as of family and affinal relations.
The paper is concerned with the high levels of infant and child illness and death amongst poor urban slum communities in Rajasthan, a state with one of the highest infant mortality rates in India. Urban poverty is significant in Rajasthan with a fifth of the urban population living below the poverty line and in slums (UHRC 2006). Increasing numbers of poor migrants in search of employment contribute to the rising levels of urban poverty in cities such as Jaipur, where the present study is based.
This report seeks to promote debate and awareness of the gender effects of the tsunami, and the effects of the disaster on women in particular. Its intent is to ensure that the recovery phase of the relief effort integrates gender issues within the context of three countries—Indonesia, India, and Sri Lanka. Because of the drastic gender imbalance that resulted from these events, women are being forcibly sold into early marriages and forced to have many children to replace those lost in the tsunami.
This document examines "Self-Help" and the work of the Tibetan Refugee Self Help Centre in Darjeeling, India. Darjeeling town is host to one of the oldest refugee centres in the Tibetan Diaspora. Established in October 1959, the Tibetan Refugee Self Help Centre (TRSHC) has become one of the most powerful symbols of resilience of the Tibetan community in exile.
