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Plight of the Distraught: Situating Migrant Domestic Workers in times of Pandemic

* Author: Nupur Pattanaik As the entire society woke up to the global shutdown and economic collapse following the COVID-19 pandemic, all economic zones have been reeling under its ramifications. This encompasses “the unchecked enterprise” of the domestic workers, which mainly hires and engages women. While women have substantially bestowed to progress of the economy,

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Internal Migration in the Wake of a Pandemic

An international webinar on the topic “MIGRANTS AND DISPLACED PERSONS AMID COVID-19: ISSUES, CHALLENGES AND POLICY OPTION” was organized by the Centre for Indian Diaspora Studies (CIDS), School of International Relations and Politics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala in collaboration with Department of Social Sciences, FLAME University, Pune, Maharashtra and Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism [GRFDT], New Delhi from 15th October 2020

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“No Migration Data in India”: Irudaya Rajan

Prof. Rajan spoke during the virtual panel discussion held on the Global Compact For Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration Objective 1: “Collect and Utilize Accurate and Disaggregated Data as a Basis for Evidence-Based Policies” hosted by Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism [GRFDT], Migrant Forum in Asia, Cross-Regional Centre for Refugees and Migrants, Civil Society

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Less Population and Cultural Integration led the Indian Diaspora in St. Vincent to cope well with COVID-19: Arnold Thomas

Prof. Arnold Thomas is a retired diplomat based at the embassy of the organisation of the Eastern Caribbean States at Brussels. He has worked for several years at the Caribbean Community Secretariat at Georgetown, Guyana. He is also the founding member of St. Vincent and Grenadines SVG Indian Heritage Foundation. In the panel discussion conducted

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The new digital media reflects the spirit of Lebanese Revolution: Anne -Marie Jazzar el-Hage

On 23rd June 2020, The Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism organised an online panel discussion titled “Media Narratives on Migrants during COVID-19” where one of the speakers Ms. Anne Marie Jazzar el-Hage provided deep insights on migrants in Lebanon and how they are perceived by the two groups of the media. Ms. Anne

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Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on Migrant Workers

An international webinar on the topic, ‘Migrants and Displaced People Amid COVID-19: Issues, Challenges and Policy Options’, was jointly organized by Centre for Indian Diaspora Studies [CIDS], School of International Relations and Politics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, in collaboration with Department of Social Sciences, FLAME University, Pune, Maharashtra and Global Research Forum on Diaspora

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COVID-19 has created the possibility of restructuring the local economy: Walden Bello

Migration is abided by purpose.  There is a need to understand what makes an individual leave their country of origin, the drivers that forces people to make a livelihood in another part of the world. A webinar was organized by Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT) to understand these drivers of migration out

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Zero foreign exposure for overseas students in virtual academic life: Alma Maldonado

A webinar was jointly organized by Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism [GRFDT]and The Center For Research on North America (CISAN), UNAM on the topic ‘Student Migration During And Post COVID-19:Latin America And Mexico’.  Miss Alma Maldonado, Researcher for the Center For Research And Advanced Studies, Mexico who was one of the eminent panellists said

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Vulnerability: Another Wound in the Lives of Wounded Migrants

A panel discussion on the Objective 7 of the Global Compact for Migration (GCM) was jointly organized by Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT), Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA), Cross-Regional Centre for Refugees and Migrations (CCRM) and Civil Society Action Committee (CSAC), on 13th  October 2020, on the topic “Address and Reduce Vulnerabilities

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