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Call for Papers: Forced Migration in South Asia South Asia has seen a growing number of people seeking asylum and this trend is likely to continue in coming years. Sustainable livelihoods, reliable community-support networks, and access to specialized services for people with special needs, are some of the main challenges faced by refugees. This panel aims to address the experiences and livelihoods of refugees, asylum seekers, and other forcibly displaced populations that currently reside in or have been resettled from South Asia. This panel seeks to address multiple points in the trajectory of forced migrations and border crossings in Asia by analyzing 1)the experiences of refugee interactions with the macro level institutions of encampment, status determination, and resettlement 2) the experiences of urban asylum seekers and other forcibly displaced persons navigating host country/society social systems for survival and 3) the experiences of those having crossed out of Asia and into new borders where they maneuver through the task of resettling to life in a third country. In addition to the above, papers addressing ethical and methodological issues, including the below are also welcome: who can/should collect documents of forced migration and testimonies of refugee? Who has the rights to document those collated narratives? Who can be researched? Whose voices should be heard and preserved in archives in the field of forced migration and refugee studies? How can we adequately document and preserve history of forced migration and refugees? We invite papers to examine these and further issues (should you wish) through the proposed panel. If you are interested in joining us in this panel, please do contact Kamryn Warren ([log in to unmask] ) or Sunita Basnet ([log in to unmask]) with abstracts of 200-300 words before 14 January 2016. As panel proposal for the conference must be submitted by 15 January 2016, we invite proposal of papers for this panel by no later than January 14, 2016. If you have any question regarding this panel, please feel free to email Kamryn on [log in to unmask] Details of the Full Asian Borderlands Research Network 2016 Call for Panels is available online here: http://www.asianborderlands.net/ Thank You and Best wishes, Kamryn Warren PhD Researcher, Anthropology University of Connecticut Sunita Basnet PhD Researcher, Geography University of Waikato ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or extracts should include attribution to the original sources. E-mail: [log in to unmask] Posting guidelines: http://www.forcedmigration.org/research-resources/discussion/forced-migration-discussion-list-posting-guidelines Subscribe/unsubscribe: http://tinyurl.com/fmlist-join-leave List Archives: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html RSS: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?RSS&L=forced-migration Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/refugeestudies Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/refugeestudiescentre