Applications are invited for a 15-day orientation course on Forced
Migration to be held in Kolkata, India (1-15 December 2008). The short-
term winter course, organised each year by the Mahanirban Calcutta
Research Group, will be preceded by a two and a half month long programme
of distance education. The course is intended for younger academics,
refugee activists and others working in the field of human rights and
humanitarian assistance for victims of forced displacement. The curriculum
will deal with themes of nationalism, ethnicity, partition, and partition-
refugees, national regimes and the international regime of protection,
political issues relating to regional trends in migration in South Asia,
internal displacement, the gendered nature of forced migration and
protection framework, resource politics, environmental degradation, and
several other issues related to the forced displacement of people. The
course will put emphasis on the experiences of displacement, creative
writings on refugee life, critical legal and policy analysis, and analysis
of relevant notions such as vulnerability, care, risk, protection, return
and settlement. The course will include fieldwork and other exercises. For
content and structure of past courses, please consult the Archives section
of the CRG website at http://www.mcrg.ac.in/winter.htm.

Applicants must have (a) 3 years experience in the work of protection of
the victims of forced displacement, OR hold a post-graduate degree in
Social Sciences and (b) proficiency in English. Besides giving all
necessary particulars, application must be accompanied by an appropriate
recommendation letter and a 500-1000 word write-up on how the programme is
relevant to the applicant's work and may benefit the applicant. Selected
candidates from South Asia will have to pay INR 5000 each as registration
fee (from outside South Asia the fee is US $ 500). CRG will bear
accommodation and other course expenses for all participants.

Applications, addressed to the Course Coordinator, can be sent by e-mail
to [log in to unmask] or by post, and must reach the following
address by 31 May 2008:

Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group
GC-45, First Floor,
Sector-III
Salt Lake City
Kolkata-700 106
West Bengal
India

For details visit our web site http://www.mcrg.ac.in/wc05.htm. Inquiries
relating to the application procedure are welcome.

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