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Refugees and the state : practices of asylum and care in India, 1947-2000 /

This volume analyses India's reasonably good record of providing protection and hospitality to refugees, while pointing out the contradictions in the relation between these positive aspects and the manner in which state power has been exercised in post-colonial India. In examining the varied en...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Samāddāra, Raṇabīra
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Power and care : building the new Indian state / Ranabir Samaddar
  • Aliens in a colonial world / Paula Banerjee
  • State response to the refugee crisis : relief and rehabilitation in the East / Samir Kumar Das
  • Birth of social security commitments : what happened in the West / Ritu Menon
  • Returnees and the refugees : migration from Burma / Subir Bhaumik
  • Genocide of 1971 and the refugee influx in the East / K.C. Saha
  • Uprooted twice : refugees from the Chittagong Hill tracts / Sabayasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury
  • Gainers of a stalemate : the Tibetans in India / Rajesh Kharat
  • Sheltering civilians and warriors : entanglements in the south / V. Suryanarayan
  • Refugee women and children : need for protection and care / Asha Hans
  • Paradoxes of the international regime of care : the role of the UNHCR in India / Sarbani Sen
  • Status of refugees in India : strategic ambiguity / B.S. Chimni.