Save the Date/A Talk by Ranabir Samaddar
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5 / 4:00 PM
CLASS of 1947 Room HBL
"The Emergence of Rohingyas as a Stateless Community in South Asia"
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Co-Sponsored by Department of Sociology, the India Studies Program, the Human Rights Institute, and the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute
Ranabir Samaddar belongs to the critical school of thinking and is considered as one of the foremost theorists in the field about migration and forced migration studies. He is currently the Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies, Calcutta Research group, and Visitor, O’Brien Residency Programme at McGill University.
Commentators have noted that fluctuating attitudes and policies of great powers and the united nations towards the suppression of the Rohingyas by the State of Myanmar. But the regional dimension of the problem was ignored even in analyses of the Bay of Bengal crisis of 2015 involving the boat people - the Rohingyas and Bangladeshis. By focusing on Rohingyas in India and elsewhere in the region around the Bay of Bengal, the talk aims to bring to light this overlooked regional dimension, which was finally brought to light by the Bay of Bengal crisis and became clearer in recent time as Rohingyas fled in large numbers to neighbouring countries like Bangladesh, Thailand, and Malaysia.
For more information, contact: Cathy Schlund-Vials at cathy.schlund-vials@uconn.edu