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Workshop
Tuesday, 27 October, 14-18h
Wednesday, 28 October, 9-13h

Carried out by Dr. Amit Prakash (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Dehli)

Outline
The question of social justice lies at the root of debates about human migration – whether in the source or host societies. However, a significant proportion of literature treats migration instrumentally with political and policy options geared towards ‘solving’ the issues thrown up by migration. Thus, the policy options are geared towards economic opportunities for migrants, and, facilitation of social integration in host societies. Half a century of this approach has yielded mixed results across the world.
Approaching migration from the lens of social justice requires an expansion of approaches to examine migration in ‘perspectival dualism’ instead of a normative monoism (Fraser & Honneth 2003). Such an approach will serve the purpose of raising questions about the plight of migrant populations which are often analysed and addressed only partially by the deployment of only a redistribution lens by the liberal state.
The workshop therefore will be focussed on expanding the conceptual debates on social justice and migrants by focussing on some of the major scholars such as Nancy Fraser, Axel Honneth, Will Kymlicka, Bhiku Parekh, etc. Empirical examples from India will be deployed to buttress the issues.

Part 1: Migrants and Social Justice: The Recognition and Redistribution Debate
Part 2: Empirical Cases: Migrants in (a) Assam; (b) Delhi

Readings
Part 1:
• Fraser, Nancy and Axel Honneth, Redistribution or Recognition?: A Political-Philosophical Exchange, (Translated by Joel Galb, James Ingram, and Christiane Wilke) London: Verso, 2003.
• Fraser, Nancy, Scales of justice : reimagining political space in a globalizing world, Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2008.
• Kymlicka, Will, ‘The rise and fall of multiculturalism?: New debates on inclusion and accommodation in diverse societies’ in International Social Science Journal, Vol. 61, No. 199, March 2010, pp. 97–112.

Part 2:
• Baruah, Sanjib, ‘Protective Discrimination and Crisis of Citizenship in North-East India’ in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 38, No. 17, Apr. 26 - May 2, 2003, pp. 1624-1626.
• Baviskar, Amita, ‘Between violence and desire: space, power, and identity in the making of metropolitan Delhi’ in International Social Science Journal, Vol. 55, No. 175, March 2003, pp. 89–98,
• Bhan, Gautam, “This is no longer the city I once knew”: Evictions, the urban poor and the right to the city in millennial Delhi’ in Environment and Urbanization, Vol. 21, No. 1, April 2009, pp. 127-142, doi: 10.1177/0956247809103009.
• Crush, Jonathan & Sujata Ramachandran, ‘Xenophobia, International Migration and Development’ in Journal of Human Development and Capabilities: A Multi-Disciplinary Journal for People-Centered Development, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2010, pp. 209-228, DOI: 10.1080/19452821003677327
• Das, Samir Kumar, ‘Introduction’ in Das, Samir Kumar, ed., Blisters in their Feet: Tales of Internally Displaced Persons in India’s North East, New Delhi: Sage, 2008, pp. 11-46.
• Ghertner, D. Asher, ‘Nuisance Talk and the Propriety of Property: Middle Class Discourses of a Slum-Free Delhi’ in Antipode, Vol. 44, No. 4, 2012, pp. 1161–1187, doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00956.x

Bionote
Amit Prakash is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He studied for his MA and MPhil degrees in Political Science at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and for his graduate degree at the Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara.
During his academic career, he has been awarded a number of academic honours and scholarships, including the Felix Scholarship for studying for a PhD at SOAS; Junior Research Fellowship of the University Grants Commission, New Delhi. He has also been invited as visiting professor by the Maison des Sciences de l’Hommme, Paris, France; Sciences Po Bordeaux, France; University of Copenhagen, Denmark; University of Stockholm, Sweden; and, the Südasien Institut, Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
He is also the author of Jharkhand: Politics of Development of Identity (New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2001) & Politics and Internal Security (Mumbai: Popular, 2004) and co-editor (along with Niraja Gopal Jayal and Pradeep K Sharma) of Local Governance in India: Decentralisation and Beyond, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006.