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A refugee is a person who has been rendered rootless with a political cause.
A refugee is a person who has been rendered rootless because of a political cause or natural disaster. Many of such refugees are left with no option than to migrate, involuntarily.
Involuntary migrations continue to play an important role in the world - with wars and political strife forcing hundreds of thousands to flee - from their place of birth in search of a better life, and in many cases, in search of a place to live.
Whether it is (Jews) in Germany, Rwanda, Bosnia-Yugoslavia, Syria or Israel, people have been constantly faced with situations where they have no choice but to flee. Unlike voluntary migrations - where individuals move by choice and not due to safety concerns - involuntary movements are invariably driven and accompanied by extraordinary events such as wars, partition, and ethnic/religious strife. Such migrants must have fled the bounds of their home-state “owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion
The partition of India in 1947 along religious grounds into India, Pakistan, and what eventually became Bangladesh, resulted in one such, may be the largest and the most rapid, migrations in human history.
Given that partition was on religious grounds, it is not surprising that the dominant factor determining the flow of migration - especially along the borders - was religion.
Such migrants moved to places closer to the India-Bangladesh/Pakistan borders as in the case of Assam, West Bengal and Tripura. Moreover the large cities like Kolkata, New Delhi and Mumbai also attracted the migrants.
Such rootlessness — whether, individual or communal, political or linguistic — is dangerous!
Humanitarian measures should be rooted in political action. The reality of human rights seems to fade in case of migrants due to religious atrocities as the Government(s) seem(s) to fail ostensibly in defending them in India. It has exposed a fundamental rift between humanitarian principles and political solutions to conflict.
Strategically, it has been forgotten that a solution to mass displacement requires political action in which security concerns are seen inextricable from humanitarian predicaments.
Refugees are not dogs - rabid or otherwise! They are unmistakably people. Refugees in India saw their homes and fortunes disappear in the wake of the Partition.
Although they possess a seemingly infinite freedom – they still feel rootlessness and dislocation, a feeling of perpetual displacement. Tracing the stories of refugees, we can develop a better understanding of the role of states in defending human rights in the face of an increasingly disordered situation in India.
We must not be deaf to their pleas in the present existing situation. They need the dignity and rights accorded to full citizens. Human rights must be anchored in the work of states willing to defend these principles.
This belief lays the 'route map' of this blog, RootMap.
Let us join, participate, encourage and enlighten each other to design a transcendental route map of the rootless people of Assam and North-East.
A refugee is a person who has been rendered rootless because of a political cause or natural disaster. Many of such refugees are left with no option than to migrate, involuntarily.
Involuntary migrations continue to play an important role in the world - with wars and political strife forcing hundreds of thousands to flee - from their place of birth in search of a better life, and in many cases, in search of a place to live.
Whether it is (Jews) in Germany, Rwanda, Bosnia-Yugoslavia, Syria or Israel, people have been constantly faced with situations where they have no choice but to flee. Unlike voluntary migrations - where individuals move by choice and not due to safety concerns - involuntary movements are invariably driven and accompanied by extraordinary events such as wars, partition, and ethnic/religious strife. Such migrants must have fled the bounds of their home-state “owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion
The partition of India in 1947 along religious grounds into India, Pakistan, and what eventually became Bangladesh, resulted in one such, may be the largest and the most rapid, migrations in human history.
Given that partition was on religious grounds, it is not surprising that the dominant factor determining the flow of migration - especially along the borders - was religion.
Such migrants moved to places closer to the India-Bangladesh/Pakistan borders as in the case of Assam, West Bengal and Tripura. Moreover the large cities like Kolkata, New Delhi and Mumbai also attracted the migrants.
Such rootlessness — whether, individual or communal, political or linguistic — is dangerous!
Humanitarian measures should be rooted in political action. The reality of human rights seems to fade in case of migrants due to religious atrocities as the Government(s) seem(s) to fail ostensibly in defending them in India. It has exposed a fundamental rift between humanitarian principles and political solutions to conflict.
Strategically, it has been forgotten that a solution to mass displacement requires political action in which security concerns are seen inextricable from humanitarian predicaments.
Refugees are not dogs - rabid or otherwise! They are unmistakably people. Refugees in India saw their homes and fortunes disappear in the wake of the Partition.
Although they possess a seemingly infinite freedom – they still feel rootlessness and dislocation, a feeling of perpetual displacement. Tracing the stories of refugees, we can develop a better understanding of the role of states in defending human rights in the face of an increasingly disordered situation in India.
We must not be deaf to their pleas in the present existing situation. They need the dignity and rights accorded to full citizens. Human rights must be anchored in the work of states willing to defend these principles.
This belief lays the 'route map' of this blog, RootMap.
Let us join, participate, encourage and enlighten each other to design a transcendental route map of the rootless people of Assam and North-East.