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4th International E-Conference on Migration, Governance, and COVID-19: Perspectives, Policies, Opportunities, and Challenges: Session on Forced Migration & Human Rights

The seventh session of the 4th International E-Conference on “Migration, Governance, and COVID-19: Perspectives, Policies, Opportunities, and Challenges”, was held on November 3rd and 4th, 2022. The theme of the session was “Forced Migration & Human Rights”. The session was chaired by Dr. Monika Bisht Ranjan, an Executive Committee member of the Global Research Forum on […]

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“Migration, Governance, and COVID-19: Perspectives, Policies, Opportunities, and Challenges” – Session V: Language Session

The 4th International E-Conference titled “Migration, Governance, and COVID-19: Perspectives, Policies, Opportunities, and Challenges” was jointly organised by the Centre for Research on North America (CISAN), Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) and Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT) from 3-4 November 2022. The fifth session of the conference was chaired by Professor Camelia

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How is Tuvalu responding to the threat of Climate Change?

Tuvalu is heavily impacted by climate change. This is because Tuvalu consists of nine islands that “are very low-lying, their morphology is entirely dependent on coral growth, they have shallow freshwater lenses which are easily depleted in times of drought, have high population densities, and people’s diets are heavily dependent on fisheries.”[1] As a result,

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Perceived exposure to migration amidst perilous stalemate in Ukraine: Predicting migration using Google Trends

By Sila Mishra “…..The migration itself, like the pilgrimage, is the hard journey: a ‘leveller’ on which the ‘fit’ survive and stragglers fall by the wayside. The journey thus pre-empts the need for hierarchies and shows of dominance.” (The Songlines) The sites of deaths, collapsed walls, rubbles of kindergarten, shops, public utilities, and agricultural machines

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Guyana President will be Chief Guest at the 17th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas

According to the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, the President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali, will be the Chief Guest at the 17thPravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) Convention. Dr. Ali became Guyana’s ninth Executive President on August 2, 2020. Dr. Ali’s profile at the official website of Guyana’s President

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4th International E-Conference on Migration, Governance and COVID-19: Session on Literature and Migrant Societies

The seventh session of the 4th International E-Conference on “Migration, Governance, and COVID-19: Perspectives, Policies, Opportunities, and Challenges”, was held on November 3, 2022. The theme of the session was “Literature and Migrant Societies”. The session was chaired by Dr Nandini Sen, an Associate Professor of English at Bharati College, University of Delhi, India. The

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Malaysia’s Deportation of Asylum Seekers Back to Myanmar Violates International Law on Non-Refoulement

There has been an unwarranted rise in the number of refugees globally in the last decade, but a huge part of the crises we face today is refugee return. Despite the principle of non-refoulement—a law that protects refugees and asylum seekers from being deported back to their country where they may face persecution, torture, or

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4th International E-conference of GRFDT, MFA and CISAN envisions Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration

4th International E-Conference titled “Migration, Governance, and COVID-19: Perspectives, Policies, Opportunities, and Challenges” was jointly organised by Centre for Research on North America(CISAN), Migrant Forum in Asia(MFA) and Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism(GRFDT) from 3-4 November 2022. The opening session of this conference was moderated by Ms. Paddy Siyanga Knudsen, Vice President, GRFDT,

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