Browsing by Subject "Refugee"

Now showing 1 - 4 of 4

Open Access
Bhutanese Refugee Imbroglio
(University of North Bengal, 2016) Sarkar, Tuhina
The 107,000 Nepali- speaking refugees, known as Lhotshampa, claim Bhutanese citizenship based on historical residence patterns. They have languished in refugee camps in Nepal's Terai districts since the early 1990s because of Nepal's, India's and Bhutan's inability or unwillingness to resolve their citizenship status. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), many Bhutanese refugees say they want to return to their homes in Bhutan. Despite this desire- and despite numerous high- level meetings between the governments of Bhutan and Nepal to resolve the refugee crisis over the past 20 years- Bhutan has not permitted a single refugee to return home. Local integration has not been possible for political reasons. With neither repatriation nor local integration a realistic possibility for the great majority of refugees the latter had accepted resettlement in eight Western countries: 91,713 refugees offered settlement in the US had already arrived, some noticeably malnourished and suffering from a vitamin B12 deficiency. Resettlement to a third country has emerged as the only durable solution to the problem.
Open Access
Comment on the gurkha’s daughter
(University of North Bengal, 2015-03) Chhetri, Kumar
Although the British colonizers, anthropologist and administrators have produced a bulk of ethnographic accounts, travelogues, military accounts, and research papers there is no sufficient English literary work which centers on the life of the Nepalis. The earlier available works were either based on the life of Nepalis in Darjeeling or on the Himalayan kingdom (Nepal), whereas the present work The Gurkha’s Daughter by Prajwal Parajuly is unique in the sense that it engulfs the life of the Nepalis both in Nepal and its Diasporas around the world in eight short stories. Despite being fiction the stories carry the social reality of everyday life experiences of the Nepali people and its Diasporas.
Open Access
Conceptual and Theoretical Study of Responsibility of State of Origin of Refugees Towards the Host Countries
(University of North Bengal, 2023-03) Ghosh, Satarupa
Thrust area of this research is to put some light on the right of refugee hosting countries as to regulate the refugee flow and to protect the right of refugees. Responsibility sharing is a core principle of International responses to refugee crises. There must be a holistic approach to international burden sharing that will enhance the protection of refugees as well as the host community. Right to compensation of the refugee hosting countries as a means of enforcing justice and of preventing future refugee flows is the prime concern of this study. The right and duty of compensation in the refugee context are justified and should be further developed. Refugees are people who have had to flee their country because of armed conflict, serious human rights abuses or persecution. A refugee is a person who cannot return to their own country because they are at risk of serious human rights abuses there. Because their own government cannot or will not protect them, they are forced to flee their country and seek international protection.
Open Access
Contested Spaces: Population Dynamics, the Refugees and Changing Social Landscape of Siliguri (1835 To 2011 C.E.)
(University of North Bengal, 2016-03) Kumari, Minakshee
The East India company in 1835 first acquired the nucleus of Darjeeling district from Raja of Sikkim, it was almost entirely under forest and particularly uninhabited. Although it was stated to have been inhabited probably a more accurate estimate was that these Hill tracks of 138 square miles contain the population of 100. The heavy forest and no communication facilities must have discouraged development and could have been a big obstruction for any increase of population. 1This research article traces how the population of Siliguri changed after independence and especially after the Indo Pakistan war when there was a huge flow of migration of people from surrounding areas and this totally altered the social landscape of the region.