Internal Migration Within South Asia

Ujjaini Mukhopadhyay is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Behala College, Kolkata, India. She obtained her Ph.D. from Calcutta University, India, in 2005. Her papers have been published in reputed journals such as Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, Energy Policy, The Environmentalist, Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies, to name a few. She has served the University of Calcutta as Visiting Faculty. She has also co-authored two books titled Revisiting the Informal Sector: A General Equilibrium Approach and Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries: A Theoretical Evaluation (Springer). She received the Emerald Literati Award from Emerald Publishing, UK, for Outstanding Paper in 2019.

• Part I: ​Conceptualising the Complexities in Cross-border Movements.- Perspectives on Intra-Region Migration in South Asia – A Reorientation.- Refugees in South Asia: Political Membership, Nation-building Projects, and Securitization of Human Flows.- Ordeal of Statelessness in South Asia.- Part II: Refugee Crisis, Repatriation and Resettlement: The Political Imbroglio.- The Rohingya Crisis: A Long Road Ahead.- Statelessness, Marginality and Influx of the Rohingyas: Impacts on Environment and Host Communities of Bangladesh.- Caught in the Crossfire: A Historical Case Study of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Refugees in India.- Challenges to Returnees in Afghanistan: A Post-2014 Analysis.- The Impact of Resettlement on the Bhutanese Refugees: A Critical Reflection.- Pandemic and India-Nepal Migration.- Part III: Socio-economic Perspectives of Internal Migration in India.- In The Midst Of Dire Hopelessness: An Analysis of Poverty, Social Capital and Migration Behaviour of Kolkata’s Rural In-Migrants.-Health and Life of Seasonal Migrant Women Workers Engaged in Sugarcane Harvest in Maharashtra, India.- Male Out-migration and Left behind Women in Uttar Pradesh, India.- Emigration, Economic Reform and Wage Distribution in a Small Economy.