Week 1 : Introduction: Theorizing and Historicizing Migration; Defining Refugee; Migrant, Exile, Expatriate; Types and Waves of Migration; Impacts of Migration; Push and Pull factors
Week 2 : Politics of Space, Understanding the notions of Spatio-temporality in Migration Studies; Refugee and Heterotopia; Immigration and Integration; National and Local belongings, Repatriation and Refugee Agency; Alienation; Affect
Week 3 : Examples of recent migration and contemporary scenario related with migration- a survey
Theorizing Borderland Discourse – Understanding borderlands in a geo-political perspective, Nation-State; Border, Frontier, Territorial Divides; Understanding borderlands in a geopolitical perspective within South Asia, concepts of ‘home’ and ‘uncanny geography’
Week 4 : Case Studies of select South Asian literary texts discussing topics such as Refugeehood, Migration; Refugee, Resistance and Survival
India-Pakistan Border: The partition of India and Pakistan and its long-lasting impact on border communities- Saadat Hasan Manto’s “Toba Tek Singh”, Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan
India-Bangladesh Border: Enclaves and cross-border migration issues- East and West by Sunil Ganguly, Lajja by Taslima Nasreen
India-Nepal Border: Open border policy and its socio-economic implications- Palpassa Café by Narayan Wagle
India-Sri Lanka Border: Sinhalese-Tamil disputes and Tamil migration- Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
India-Myanmar Border: Migration, ethnic conflict, and refugee movements- The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
India-Tibet Border: Identity, Survival, Resilience- Across Many Mountains: A Tibetan Family's Epic Journey from Oppression to Freedom by Yangzom Brauen
Week 5 : Theorizing Borderland Discourse – Understanding borderlands in a geopolitical perspective within South Asia; Nation-State; Border, Frontier, Territorial Divides, concepts of ‘home’ and ‘uncanny geography’
Through select artworks, studies Gendered borderlands, Identity politics and Body politics; Refugeehood and Gender; Displacement, Bodily Violence and Trauma; Memorialization and Nostalgia - Ismat Chughtai’s “Jadein” (Roots), Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India; Amrita Pritam’s Pinjar
Week 6 : Diaspora and Transnationalism: Discourses and Trajectories; Major Diaspora Communities and Popular Terms in Diaspora; Romanticization, Exoticization; Double Displacement
Week 7 : Historicizing global diaspora in different contexts with a focus on South Asian diaspora; Home and Diaspora Identity - a survey Case studies: Salman Rushdie’s ‘Imaginary Homelands’; Diaspora and Literary work- Romesh Gunesekera’s Reef, Tahnima Anam’s A Golden Age, Kamila Shamsie’s Kartography, Monica Ali’s Brick Lane, Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance and Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag, Manjushree Thapa’s Seasons of Flight, Marina Budhos’s Ask Me No Questions.
Week 8 : Exploring the theme of ‘Food’ and ‘Multiculturalism’ in Diaspora:
Shani Mootoo’s ‘Out on Main Street’ and Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘Mrs Sen’
Introducing Digital Diaspora, Indian Digital Diaspora, Virtual Diaspora and Cyberspace in the context of South Asia - The Case of ‘TibetBoard’
Week 9 : Diaspora and Cinema - The Namesake, The Mistress of Spices, Bride and Prejudice, Christmas As Usual, Mrs. Chatterjee Versus Norway, Never Have I Ever, Bend It Like Beckham, English Vinglish; select works discussing Bollywood and Diaspora
Week 10 : Kalapani Crossings, Indentured labour and Coolie Diaspora; Double Displacement; Ramabai Espinet The Swinging Bridge; M.G.Vassanji’s No New Land, V.S. Naipual’s A House for Mr. Biswas
Week 11 : Displacement of South Asian Indigenous population: Santhal tea tribes, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s “November is a month of migrations,” Regina Marandi’s Becoming Me
Week 12 : Conclusion- Challenges and Future Scopes of Refugee Studies; Problematics of Diaspora Community Experience
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