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The Office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner was established in 1992 when the first wave of Rohingya refugees, about 250 thousand, arrived from Myanmar. The office is located in Cox's Bazar District. [4] Mahbub Alam Talukder was appointed commissioner on 2 September 2019 replacing Abul Kalam. [5]
Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (Bengali: রিফিউজি এন্ড মাইগ্রেটরী মুভমেন্টস্ রিসার্চ ইউনিট) is a research institute and think tank in Bangladesh that works with migrants and refugees. [1] [2] [3] It is based out of the University of Dhaka. [4]
The emergence of refugee studies as a distinct field of study has been criticized by scholars due to terminological difficulty. Since no universally accepted definition for the term "refugee" exists, the academic respectability of the policy-based definition, as outlined in the 1951 Refugee Convention, is disputed. Additionally, academics have ...
Refugee Phrasebook is an online collection of useful vocabulary and phrases for refugees who have recently arrived in various European and potentially other host countries. Published as open source software , it is a multilingual tool that provides basic useful vocabulary related to the most common immediate needs of refugees and their helpers ...
Marichjhapi massacre or Marichjhapi incident refers to the 1979 eviction of post-partition Bengali refugees who had moved out of the Dandakaranya camps in Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and settled in protected forest lands on Marichjhapi island in the Sundarbans, West Bengal.
In 1950, it is estimated that a further one million refugees crossed into West Bengal, particularly in the aftermath of 1950 Barisal riots and Noakhali riots. [7] The 1951 Census of India recorded that 27% of Kolkata's population was East Bengali refugees mainly Hindu Bengalis and they contributed the economic growth of Kolkata in various ...
Refugee is a 2006 Indian Bengali-language action film directed by Haranath Chakraborty and produced by Shrikant Mohta and Mahendra Soni under the banner of Shree Venkatesh Films. [2] It stars Prosenjit Chatterjee as a prominent refugee from Bangladesh and Rambha in the female lead, [ 3 ] with Rishabh Prasad as the narrator and the couples ...
Most of the places where Bengali refugees were resettled belonged to tribal people. So the union government (which is now central government) designed and put the Dandakaranya Project in place. Through the Dandakaranya Project the Bengali refugees would be resettled on tribal lands, and integrate and uplift the area belonging to the tribal people.