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On 14 July 2020, a panel discussion was jointly organized by Jointly Organized by Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA), Manila, Philippines, Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT), New Delhi, India  and Cross Regional Center for Refugees and Migrants (CCRM), Beirut, Lebanon. Ambassador Nahida Sobhan who is the Ambassador of Bangladesh to Jordan, and […]

Speaking in a webinar on 30 September 2020 on the topic “Migrants Rights in the Time of Predatory Developmentalism” which is a part of a webinar series titled “Transitions in International Migrants’ Rights Governance: Towards Inclusive and Rights Based Public Policy” organized by Centre for West Asian Studies, School of International Relations and Politics (SIRP)

On the 4th of August, the Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism hold a webinar on the topic: High Skilled Migration during and post COVID-19, Perspectives from Latin America and Asia. Andrés Solimano, a lecturer at the Latin American Centre of Oxford School of Global and Area Studies and founder, the International Centre for

29.9.2020 Taiwan Abhay Chawla was one of six speakers at webinar organized by Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism with the main focus on media narratives on migrants during COVID-19. Chawla is a lecturer at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. In his speech, Chawla discussed misinformation in Indian news. As an example, he

R.K. Radhakrishnan is an Associate Editor at India’s national magazine Frontline, who focuses on migrant worker labour issues. He joined the online webinar organized by the Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism, which took place on the 23rd of June 2020.According to his observations, there exist two narratives regarding migrants in media: one concerning

On 27th May, 2020, Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism organised a panel discussion on “Gulf Migration: During and Aftermath of COVID-19” seeing the vast number of international migrants stuck in the Gulf region due to the sudden onset of coronavirus. Dr Ganesh Gurung from the Nepal institute of Development studies gave us a

On 27 May 2020, a panel discussion was conducted by Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism [GRFDT]  on the topic, “Gulf Migration: During and Aftermath of COVID-19” seeing the vast number of international migrants stuck in the Gulf region. Mr FroilanMalit Jr, from the University of Cambridge, UK discussed on how migration mobility will

On 27th May 2020, a panel discussion was conducted by Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism [GRFDT] on the topic “Gulf Migration: During and Aftermath of COVID-19”. Dr. BileshaWeeraratneis a research fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka. She focused on the issue of gulf migrants from Sri Lanka and pointed

An International panel discussion titled “Gulf Migration: During and Aftermath of COVID-19” organized by Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism on 27th May, 2020 focused on the issues the migrant workers in Gulf countries are facing during COVID-19. One of the eminent panelists, Prof. Irudaya Rajan, Centre for Development Studies who has been researching

Millions of migrant labourers working in the Gulf countries face an unprecedented crisis as the coronavirus pandemic spreads across the globe with disastrous consequences for the employment sector. Faced with loss of jobs and being exposed to the deadly virus in the absence of adequate protection, these migrants are returning to their own countries which