Centre for Studies on Borders and Movements cordially invites you to participate in the Workshop on Research Methodology for Migration Studies in collaboration with West Bengal State university, Kolkata & Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata
A workshop on research methodology for Migration Studies will be organised by our Centre from 18th-21st October, 2022
Movement of human populations across the world, a familiar phenomenon in human history, has received great impetus in the aftermath of industrialism, colonialism and globalisation. The study of migration and the consequences of settlement in a ‘foreign’ land are therefore, areas associated with much emerging research today. These studies require skill in different areas such as fieldwork, interviewing, handling statistical data, reading maps, assessing authenticity of documents, and other skills not always taught in the humanities and social sciences. Yet they are skills indispensable to researchers in this area. The workshop will explore these, drawing on resources of scholars from disciplines of history, economics, geography, management, literatures, and technology. Tools which may be used to study migrations, settlement patterns and contributions to the social, cultural, economic and political life of the area will be addressed. Tangentially related areas associated with migration will also be included, such as the ethos of cosmopolitanism , creation of the nucleus of syncretism, feelings of otherness. The workshop will seek to cover these areas through classroom lectures and hands-on experience. For the latter, each participant will be asked to bring to the workshop a case study involving migration directly or tangentially. These may be from any field of the humanities and social sciences. The participant will present and discuss their work on/approach to this case study with the resource persons and their fellow-participants (CSBM will prepare a publication through a selection of these studies in due time).
Studying immigration has usually entailed for researchers the following kinds of work:
• field work in the form of interviews and documentation of local events,
• Processes of studying the geographical terrain/ area
• evaluation of existing scholarship (through acquiring a knowledge of the existing paradigms of thought)
• accessing and using knowledge archived in the ‘raw’ form (letters, governmental orders, state policies)
• grounding in critical theory
These are some of the areas that will be addressed by this workshop.
If interested, please upload in English or in Bengali in pdf only:
1. A bio-note in about 100-words.
2. A proposal of research in about 500-words through the Google Forms link.
https://forms.gle/4mHxox1h4bzaAcMN8
The relevant dates are as follows:
Submission of statement of interest through the above mentioned Google Form: by 30th July, 2022
Notification to participant of acceptance of application by CSBM: by 30th August, 2022.
Submission of research study (at least 2000 words in a given format): by 30th September, 2022.
Workshop dates: 18th-21st October, 2022.
Selected candidates shall be notified by email.
Registration fee: Rs.1000 /- (Rupees one thousand only). Only selected candidates are required to pay. Mode of Payment shall be notified later.
The workshop will be held in both offline (Kolkata premises) and online mode.
Venue: West Bengal State University and Rabindra Bharati University (Jorasanko Campus).
Resource Persons
Anup Shekhar Chakraborty, Netaji Institute for Asian Studies
Bhaswati Das, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Himadri Lahiri, Netaji Subhas Open University
Kavita Punjabi, Jadavpur University
Nilanjana Gupta, Jadavpur University
Pallavi Chakravarty, Dr BR Ambedkar University Delhi.
Partha Pratim Basu, Jadavpur University
Raj Sekhar Basu, University of Calcutta
Sajal Nag. Assam University
Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Victoria University of Wellington