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Ranabir Samaddar

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Research themes: migration and forced migration studies; nationalism and postcolonial statehood in South Asia, labour and technological change; and peace studies

Awards

  • Invited as visiting professors to several institutions in the last twenty-three years
  • Global Fellow, Peace Research Institute, OSLO (2014- 2017)
  • (viii) Member, Advisory Group, International Association for Studies in Forced Migration (2014-2019)
  • (xliii) Distinguished Lecturer on South Asia in various universities of Australia at the invitation of Asian Studies
  • Association of Australia on the occasion of the (17th Biennial Conference (2008)

Relevant Publications

  • A Pandemic and the Politics of Life (Delhi: Women Unlimited, 2021)
  • The Postcolonial Age of Migration (London and New York: Routledge, 2020)
  • “Genocide: On the Edge of an Act called Mass Murder”, International Politics Reviews, 2022 - https://doi.org/10.1057/s41312-022-00136-2
  • “The Global Gaze of Care, Protection, and Power”, Refuge, Volume 36, No 1, 2020 - https://refuge.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/refuge/article/view/40617/36574

Institution

Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group

Department

Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies

Education

  • Ph.D (Political Science), Calcutta University, 1992

Country

India

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