Reece Jones, Md Azmeary Ferdoush
The migration ‘crisis’ of the mid-2010s featured many familiar stories: Syrians fleeing the war that destroyed their homes; Central Americans escaping gang violence to find safety in the north; Eritreans fleeing a totalitarian regime that prohibits emigration; hundreds of thousands of Rohingya cross...
Md Azmeary Ferdoush
One of the most powerful and popular narratives among a range of actors, including state officials, politicians, journalists, and former enclave residents, was that "the state was absent" in the enclaves and that they were therefore spaces where no rules applied. The exchange and the merger of the e...
Md Azmeary Ferdoush
After a long rickshaw journey along zigzagging dirt paths, my research assistant, Morshed, and I finally arrived at one of the former Indian enclaves in Bangladesh. To be sure, I asked a man in a small shop selling cigarettes, "Is this the enclave of Kotvajni?" Unable to mask his irritation, he repl...
Md Azmeary Ferdoush
The "problem" for the Bangladeshi state regarding the newly gained enclave residents and territories was twofold: First, there was the problem of legibility – that is, creating a condition that would enable the state to intervene to an extent so the former enclaves became easily "readable" to it by ...
Md Azmeary Ferdoush
The first time I had ever been to the enclaves was in the early 2000s, not for academic purposes but out of curiosity, as I kept hearing about these "weird" pockets of Indian land located inside Bangladesh. Access was easier for me because I was born and raised in the northern region of Bangladesh, ...
Md Azmeary Ferdoush
Forced migration in the 21st century is inextricably linked to three global developments: climate change, rapid urbanization and the lack of solutions faced by millions of forcibly displaced people. By adding a focus on the disciplines of history and philosophy, this erudite Handbook challenges narr...
Md Azmeary Ferdoush
Reece Jones, Md Azmeary Ferdoush
<div>The world is experiencing one of the largest movements of people in history with 65 million people in 2015 alone displaced by conflict, the majority of these coming from Asia. This book offers a deep engagement with individuals whose lives were shaped by encounters with borders: by tellin...
Reece Jones, Md Azmeary Ferdoush
<div>The world is experiencing one of the largest movements of people in history with 65 million people in 2015 alone displaced by conflict, the majority of these coming from Asia. This book offers a deep engagement with individuals whose lives were shaped by encounters with borders: by tellin...
Jones, Reece, Ferdoush, Md. Azmeary
The world is experiencing one of the largest movements of people in history with 65 million people displaced by conflict in 2015, the majority of which were from Asia. This book brings a deep engagement with individuals whose lives are shaped by encounters with borders by telling the stories of a po...
Md Azmeary Ferdoush
Identity as a koti in Dhaka as well as in Bangladesh has always been a stigmatized one. The study aims to explore how the kotis in Dhaka manage their sexual identity and stigma attached with it. To do so eighteen kotis were selected from two areas of Dhaka and unstructured face to face in-depth inte...