Wollongong academic to lecture at United Nations-backed workshop in India
23 Nov 2007 | Bernie Goldie
A University of Wollongong scholar has been invited to lecture at a prestigious international workshop in India in early December for people being trained in the areas of refugees and forced migration.
Dr Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, a CAPSTRANS (Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies) researcher and Senior Lecturer in Sociology has received the invitation for the Fifth Annual Calcutta Research Group (CRG) Winter Course on Forced Migration in Kolkata, India.
The one-week workshop is supported by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Government of Finland and the Brookings Institution. It is coordinated by the CRG.
The workshop, possibly the only one of its kind in South Asia, is conceived as an annual program for bringing together available national and international expertise and experiences on forced migration, particularly the human rights and humanitarian aspects of the phenomenon of displacement and forced migration.
Dr Ganguly-Scrase said it was an outcome of the ongoing and past work by the CRG and other collaborating groups, institutions, scholars, and human rights and humanitarian activists in the field of refugee studies, internal displacement and the broad studies on forced displacement and policy analysis of laws and administrative measures in this field.
“The program is special due to its emphasis on experiences of the displaced, creative writings on refugee life, nature of displacement, critical legal analysis, analysis of notions of vulnerability, care, risk, protection, settlement, and attention on gender concerns,” she said.
Dr Ganguly-Scrase has conducted ethnographic research with forced migrants in West Bengal, India, and has several published papers in this area. She has researched on issues of ethnicity, migration and displacement in Australia and India, for the past 20 years.
As Dr Ganguly-Scrase is overseas, for further information contact the Acting Director of CAPSTRANS, Dr Tim Scrase, on (02) 02 4221 3744.
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