Abstract:Forests in India house over 250 million people whose home, hearth and livelihood come from their forest dwellings for generations. However, forest dwellers in India are among the most marginalized and neglected sections of the society comprising primarily of tribal and Dalit communities who are considered amongst the lowest in the social stratification. Discrepancies in tribal forest land allocation and redistribution has been at the centre of India’s Left Wing insurgency in what is called the Red Corridor.
Abstract:Research on the Myanmar-Thailand border usually centres on the insurgencies inside Myanmar (Burma), while the studies of migration across it are preoccupied with the plight of Burmese refugees or migrant workers. Based on life history interviews and ethnography, this paper scrutinises the Phlong Karen transborder flows between the mid-1980s and early 2010s in order to grasp the governmentality of the border, migration across it and its shifts over time.
On 26th August, Head of Department, Matteo Fumagalli was interviewed by Italy's main financial daily newspaper, ‘Il Sole 24 Ore’. Professor Fumagalli was consulted to share his views regarding Central Asian Energy issues.
CEU’s participants to the 2015 Allianz summer academy organized a round table on June 1st to discuss their preliminary report entitled: “Open Borders, Closed Minds: EU Asylum Policy in Crisis”. The event attracted participants from CEU as well as the Hungarian civil society. The discussion surrounding the report raised a number of critical issues concerning the implementation of EU asylum policies as well as the domestic treatment of asylum seekers and the effects of current political developments in Hungary.
