Displacement and Refugee Issues in South Asia - Uncovering the Contested Realities

The lack of repatriation, undignified living conditions in the host societies, tension and the lack of social cohesion make the life of the displaced and refugee population complex and vulnerable. The fate of returning these displaced populations to the homeland remained a dream.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Right to Asylum - Migration
Pearl Monteiro
Chapter 2. Migration Theory for the New Millennium: Embracing a Trans-Nationalistic Viewpoint Within International Migration Theory
Shreyoshi Ghoshray and Sayantan Ghoshray
Chapter 3. "City Life is Not for Me!": Why Don't Environmentally Displaced People of Charlands in Bangladesh Migrate to Urban Areas?
Mohammad Sajedur Rahman
Chapter 4. Understanding Social Cohesion: Perspectives from the Host and Rohingya Communities in Bangladesh
Bulbul Siddiqi, Parisa Shakur, Md Parvez Hasan Yousuf and Harisur Rahman
Chapter 5. Investigating the Prolonged Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Bangladesh and India
Kaisayr Husein
Chapter 6. Trapped by the War on Terror: The Continuing Failure of the International Community to Address the Internal Displacement Crisis in Afghanistan
Raymond Kwun-Sun
Chapter 7. Factors and Fluidity of Motivations: Understanding Afghan Migration to Europe
Saimum Parvez
Chapter 8. The Big Chaos to Hosting, Recognition and Repatriation: Unpredicted Crisis of the Rohingyas in Nepal
Raghu Bir Bista
Chapter 9. Framing Refugee Discourse in the Nepali Online News Media
Samiksha Koirala, Kriti Bhuju, Ainur Slamgazhy
Chapter 10. Voices of the Displaced Sri Lankan Tamils: A Sense of Attachment, Detachment or Both?
Diotima Chattoraj
Chapter 11. The Politics of Encampment as the "de facto Fourth Solution" to Forced Displacement
Mahmudur Rahman Bhuiyan

About the author

Bulbul Siddiqi is Associate Professor in Anthropology and Sociology at the Department of Political Science and Sociology at North South University, Bangladesh.

Product details

• Authors: Bulbul Siddiqi, Dr. Bulbul Siddiqi
• Assisted by: Bulbul Siddiqi (Editor), Dr Bulbul Siddiqi (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2024
• EAN: 9781666933895
• ISBN: 978-1-66693-389-5
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, International Relations, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum