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International Conference on Migration, Diaspora and Development

Venue: India International Centre, 40, Max Mueller Marg New Delhi 

Date: 20-21 February 2016 (Saturday-Saunday)

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Human movement within and across national boundaries and continents has been a reality in our current context. Today, migration as a global process, represents both an opportunity as well as challenge. While well-managed migration may foster socioeconomic development and bring about new opportunities in both homeland and host land, its mismanagement can result in risking  social cohesion, security and sovereignty. Some of the prominent reasons for migration throughout  human history and civilization in all countries have been the wish to enhance quality of life, betterment of one’s economic situation and maintenance of one’s own life and that of the dependents.  At the individual level, migration results when people are unable to sustain themselves within their own existing settlements. Often it is aspirational, where the person wish to go for better opportunity. Today, people prefer to migrate in search of better economic benefits, lifestyle and opportunities. Migration are also result of various social-economic, political and environmental reasons such as ethnic and ideological conflict, poverty and unemployment, natural disaster etc. Contemporary development discourses often represent migrants from developing countries as “agents of development” because of the substantial resources that they transmit back home through knowledge, new opportunities, remittances, investments, and philanthropic donations. The process of migration facilitates the transmission of  skills and expertise culture, lifestyle and collective memories to new locales. Thus, migration may be regarded as both reality and necessity of the present context.

Scholarship on migration has evolved over the years. Previous academic engagements with migration began in the1970s and 1980s that mainly focused on the lives of diaspora in exile and the resultant  loss. Gradually, it started exploring newer meanings and perspectives on human migration and the interplay with various emerging dynamics which are an outcome  of advancement in information and communication technology, media, science and technology,  networks and methods of knowledge transfer, etc. This development has impacted   policies at the national and international level. These developments also enriched the existing scholarship to a great extent.Today, the salience of migration is not just confined in terms of its economic utility. Migrants are no more just economic beings. They have emerged as agents of change and drivers of development in both home and host land.  They are also part of the conflicts and political problems in many parts of the globe. There are several new dimensions of migration that require a thoughtful scholarly deliberations. In this context, the proposed conference invites scholars from all over India to address and discuss various issues related to internal as well as international migration.

The three variables, namely, migration,  diaspora and development makes the theme even more interesting and relevant as it manages to carve out the interplay between transnational actors like the diaspora and the development processes within the territorial confines of the nation state. India has been  influenced by both internal and international migration and its diaspora is presumably the second largest in the globe  next to China.

The development impact of both internal and diasporic migrations has come to be conceived in terms of  both short and long term, with both positive and negative consequences. The other issues relate to  family, economic gains or losses resulting out of migration, knowledge and skill transfers, entrepreneurship etc. In light of the multiple challenges, there is a need for  dialogue that can be inter sectoral, interdisciplinary and that involves the multiple stakeholders. The internal migration dynamics that are part of the global migration dynamics also needs contexualisation.

About the Conference

Besides discussing the conceptual issues related to  migration and diaspora , the conference shall address various themes such as the following:

Themes and Subthemes:

• Emerging issues in scholarship and understanding of migration and diaspora
• Migration and Economy
• Knowledge Economy and policies towards high skilled labour
• Engagement with diaspora through various policy initiatives
• Diaspora, Migration and economic development
• Diasporic investment and Entrepreneurship
• Remittances of both physical and social capital and return migration
• Impact and Usage of Remittance
• Globalization and changing role of citizenship
• Migration Chain
• Social, Psychological and Cultural life of Migrants
• Refugee and Migration
• Migration in and out India
• Diasporas in India
• Migration and labour, Migration and law
• Gendered migration,
• Biopolitics in migration,
• Regional Dimensions: Cases from Kerala, Punjab and other states affected by international migration
• Internal Migration dynamics vis a vis international migration

Outcome:

The conference intends to provide fresh perspectives and better understanding of migration and diasporic issues that will provide new inputs for academic scholarship as well as for effective policy making process in India.

Note: A selection of papers from the conference will be considered for GRFDT Research Paper Series

Coordinators: Dr. M. Mahalingam and Dr. Smita Tiwari

Why to Attend?

The conference provides platform for more intensive interdisciplinary and intersect oral dialogue. Scholars from Academics, industry, development sectors, Financial institutions, Government will participate in the conference.The conference intends to provide fresh perspectives and better understanding of migration and diasporic issues that will provide new inputs for academic scholarship as well as for effective policy making process in India.

Venue (Brief about the location, climate etc)

India International Centre, 40, Max Mueller Marg New Delhi

Venue Address

India International Centre, 40, Max Mueller Marg New Delhi 

About Delhi 

Delhi, the capital city of India is a land locked city and has an extreme type of continental climate. The peak winter just ends during the first week of February month in Delhi but the temperature remain around 10°C to 24°C . The winters are marked at times by mist and fog in the mornings. The cold wave from the Himalayan region makes winters very chilly. Therefore participants are requested to wear warm cloths. 

How to Reach

International Airport to Venue

Take a pre-paid taxi from pre-paid booths located both inside and outside the airport and ask to be taken to the India International Centre near Lodi Gardens Gate No. 3. You will be asked to make the fare payment at the booths and they will give you a receipt/slip. This has to be handed over to the taxi driver once you reach your destination. Do not pay anything more to the driver. You can also get a three-wheeler auto-rickshaw from the road outside the airport. However, be warned that most of them overcharge, do not use their meters and you may have to haggle for a fair fare.
 

After exiting the airport, the driver should take a left turn and get on to the Jaipur highway (NH 8). You will cross the Radisson Hotel on your right. From the next opening, take a right to enter the expressway and then drive towards Rao Tula Ram Road. You’ll cross Subroto Park and West End on your left, and reach the Moti Bagh flyover traffic junction. From here, take a right to go on to the Mahatma Gandhi Road, popularly called the Ring Road. You’ll cross the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Bhikaji Cama Place, Vardhaman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital on the right to reach a major flyover system called the AIIMS flyover. Climb on to the flyover and take the left road on it.
 

As you come down, you’ll cross Dilli Haat on the left and INA market on the right. You’ll climb another flyover (over Safdarjung airport) and then take a right from a traffic light to enter Lodi Road. You will cross a few traffic lights, and come to a Junction with a large grey-and ochre building on your right, on the other side of the road. Take a left turn from this Junction which will take you to Max Mueller Marg. The first turn on the left leads to the IIC Annexe building and third turn on the left brings you to the main IIC building.

Google Map: https://www.google.co.in/maps/dir/Delhi+Airport/28.593693,77.222305/@28.57216,77.158699,12z/data=!4m9!4m8!1m5!1m1!1s0x390d1b845efada7d:0x34de94252977c229!2m2!1d77.094021!2d28.558311!1m1!4e1?hl=en

Domestic Airport to Venue

Take a pre-paid taxi from pre-paid booths located both inside and outside the airport and ask to be taken to the India International Centre near Lodi Gardens Gate No. 3. You will have to make the fare payment at the booth and they will give you a receipt/slip. This has to be handed over to the taxi driver once you reach your destination. Do not pay anything more to the driver. You can also get a three-wheeler auto-rickshaw from the road outside the airport. However, be warned that most of them overcharge, do not use their meters and you may have to haggle for a fair fare.

After exiting the airport, the driver should take a left turn and get on to the Jaipur highway (NH 8). You will cross the Radisson Hotel on your right. From the next opening, take a right to enter the expressway and then drive towards Rao Tula Ram Road. You’ll cross Subroto Park and West End on your left, and reach the Moti Bagh flyover traffic junction.

From here, take a right to go on to the Mahatma Gandhi Road, popularly called the Ring Road. You’ll cross the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Bhikaji Cama Place, Vardhaman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital on the right to reach a major flyover system called the AIIMS flyover. Climb on to the flyover and take the left road on it.

As you come down, you’ll cross Dilli Haat on the left and INA market on the right. You’ll climb another flyover (over Safdarjung airport) and then take a right from a traffic light to enter Lodi Road.
You will cross a few traffic lights, and come to a Junction with a large grey-and ochre building on your right, on the other side of the road. Take a left turn from this Junction on the Max Mueller Marg. The first turn on the left leads to the IIC Annexe building and third turn on the left brings you to the main IIC building

Google Map: https://www.google.co.in/maps/dir/Domestic+Airport+New+Delhi/28.593509,77.222304/@28.56436,77.12094,14z/data=!4m9!4m8!1m5!1m1!1s0x390d1b865ed827ef:0x76a4fe3c8467d952!2m2!1d77.119932!2d28.564397!1m1!4e1?hl=en

New Delhi Railway Station to Venue

Take a pre-paid taxi from pre-paid booths located both inside and outside the railway station and ask to be taken to the India International Centre near Lodi Garden Gate No. 3. You will have to make the fare payment at the booths and they will give you a slip. This slip has to be handed over to the taxi driver once you reach your destination. Do not pay anything extra to the drivers. You can also get three-wheeler auto rickshaw from the road outside the station. But most of them overcharge, do not use their meters and you will have to do a lot of negotiating.

After exiting the railway station, the driver should take a turn towards the Connaught Place outer circle. On the Connaught Place outer circle you'll cross the Super Bazaar and Statesman building on your left From the Connaught Place outer circle drive towards Janpath road. Take left to Janpath road and go straight on this road. As you come down, you'll cross Hotel Meridian on your left, National museum on the right. Janpath road will lead you up to Lodi Garden . Take left on reaching Lodi Garden you will find a Junction. You take a right from this Junction on the Max Mueller Marg. On this road the first turn on the right is for IIC Main building and third turn on the right is for IIC main building.

Google Road map of the location 

https://www.google.co.in/maps/dir/Delhi+Airport/28.593693,77.222305/@28.57216,77.158699,12z/data=!4m9!4m8!1m5!1m1!1s0x390d1b845efada7d:0x34de94252977c229!2m2!1d77.094021!2d28.558311!1m1!4e1?hl=en

Google Map for Venue

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Accomodation Information

Participants will have to arrange their own accommodation. However, they can contact the organisers if they want any support in facilitating the arrangement.

Organising Committee

Programme Schedule

Registration

A/C Name: Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism, A/C No: 11172191010635, Oriental Bank of Commerce, C.R. Park, Branch Code:101117, IFSC:ORBC0101117, or Demand Draft can be made in favour of Global Research Forum on Diaspora & Transnationalism, payable at New Delhi.

*Please note: Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism is a not-for-profit academic research forum  and we are not in a position to assist with conference travel or local hospitality expenses. Covering various cost related to registration fee, accomodation and Travel depends on the sponsorship amount. 

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