migrants

The quintessential prey

Care, coexistence and predation in a recent Hindi film on human-animal relations.

| Jul 26, 2021

A woman is her own country

The Making of a Refugee: Part 3 – A series on Afghans in Germany

| Mar 27, 2019

A map of arriving

The Making of a Refugee: Part 1 – A series on Afghans in Germany

| Mar 21, 2019

Far from home

A photo essay on Nepali women migrants in India.

Domestic flights

Risks and opportunities for women migrant labourers from Nepal.

| Mar 23, 2017

Undocumented in Europe

Southasian face of Europe’s migration crisis.

| Jun 15, 2016

Far from truth

On the policing of sexuality of migrant workers’ wives in Nepal.

| Dec 23, 2015

ASEAN at sea

The Rohingya crisis exposes ASEAN’s institutional constraints.

| Jul 03, 2015

Piece by piece

The dark underbelly of India’s garment industry.

| Mar 15, 2015

The Gorkhalis of Mizoram

A small community of Gorkhalis fights for rights and recognition in ethnocentric Mizoram.

| Aug 08, 2012

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In Mizoram, a refugee crisis highlights Mizo tribal affinities and hostility

Shared Zo identity has Mizos extending hospitality to Chin and Kuki-Chin refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh. More remarkable is that Chakmas, mistreated by the Mizo majority in Mizoram, have welcomed Kuki-Chin refugees too

In ‘Agra’, a grim portrait of the repressed Indian man

Director Kanu Behl’s Hindi feature film examines the sexual obsession and frustration of men, mental health and the transactional nature of human relationships in a patriarchal society where space is in short supply

When neoliberalism came to the Indian farm

With a focus on agricultural policy since the 1990s, 'Distress in the Fields' demonstrates how neoliberal interventions sowed the seeds of the crisis faced by farmers today