Applications are invited for a 15-day orientation course on Forced
Migration to be held in Kolkata, India (1-15 December 2009).
The Course, certified by the UNHCR and 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 deals with themes of
nationalism, ethnicity, partition, and partition-refugees, national
regimes and the international regime of protection, issues relating to
regional patterns of forced migration in South Asia, internal
displacement, the gendered nature of forced migration and protection
framework, resource politics, climate change and environmental
degradation, and several other themes related to the forced displacement
of people. The course puts emphasis on 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 also includes fieldwork
and various assignments.
Last date of application reaching CRG is 31 May 2009.
To download the application form and to get details of the course please
visit: http://www.mcrg.ac.in/wc.htm
For any further inquiry, contact:
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