Afghan refugees in Indo-Afghan relations

Bentz, Anne-Sophie

doi:10.1080/09557571.2013.785094

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“…Second, the Indian government has conferred more rights to Tibetans than other refugee groups in the country. For example, Tibetans have been granted rights to engage in employment, own property (including shops in markets) and travel abroad with documents issued by the Indian government (Bentz, 2013). Finally, Tibetan refugees have been established in India since the 1950s, which means they have had sufficient time to establish wide and productive social networks—and so when new refugees come, they readily plug into those networks.…”

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Building sustainable and decent refugee livelihoods through adult education? Interplay between policies and realities of five refugee groups

Dagar

2023

British Educational Res J

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Most of the world's refugees live in Global South countries, where they struggle to find quality education and opportunities for decent livelihoods. This paper explores the underexamined yet highly relevant interlinkage between sustainable livelihoods and adult learning among urban refugees residing in three major cities in India. It speaks to the tight intersection of education, livelihoods and aspirations of five refugee communities: Afghan, Rohingya, Somali, Chin and Tibetan. Building on interviews, focus groups and participatory drawing sessions involving 66 refugee and staff respondents, the study highlights the refugees' extremely limited learning opportunities, which result in low skills and being forced to take discriminatory and undignified work in the informal sector. By integrating the capabilities approach with sustainable livelihoods, the paper argues for more diverse educational opportunities and a broader understanding of refugee livelihoods that goes beyond pure economics to encompass consideration of freedom and human dignity.

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“…Approximately 40,000 Rohingyas are in the country, while only 16,500 are registered with UNHCR. The official figure for Afghans is 15,127, which is also disputed (see Bentz, 2013). An estimated 700 Somali refugees are in different cities (UNHCR, 2021).…”

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Building sustainable and decent refugee livelihoods through adult education? Interplay between policies and realities of five refugee groups

Dagar

2023

British Educational Res J

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“…Rather they have contributed to makeshift in India's foreign policy towards Afghanistan that is a policy of mutual friendship. With all this, Afghan refugees have occupied a good and positive space in Indo-Afghan relations (Bentz 2013). While on the ground, Afghan refugees live a quality life in India as would be discussed in the following section.…”

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Afghan Refugees in India: A Case Study of Bhogal

Sheikh

2024

RCSAS

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The tumultuous context of unending-violence and war in Afghanistan has thrown the life of its citizens into quagmire. In search of safety, approximately half of Afghanistan's population has migrated to different countries across the globe. In the aftermath of Soviet-sponsored Saur Revolution in 1978, maximum Afghan refugees sought asylum in Pakistan followed by Iran; while India stands at 12th position in becoming home to thousands of them. All the countries who are signatory to the International Refugee Convention of 1952 and International Refugee Protocol of 1967 are obliged to treat refugees through the concept of non-refoulement. Since India is not a signatory to any of these international conventions, it do not have any explicit refugee policy and hence no clarity on the concept of nonrefoulement. While on the other hand, one can see a huge chunk of refugees from Afghanistan seeking shelter in India rightly from late 1970s. Likewise, after the recent Taliban take-over of Afghanistan in 2021, Afghan refugees had flown to India in abundance after India's announcement to grant emergency e-Visas to them. Despite these efforts by India to provide support and assistance to Afghan refugees, there is a common narrative among the scholarships in India that they feel alienated, uncertain and unsafe in the country; reason being India's lack of any codified refugee policy. Given this background, the present paper aims to testify this widely-believed narrative by reexamining India's treatment towards Afghan refugees and, to analyze the life of these refugees on the ground. In doing so, the research takes a case study of Bhogal area located in South of New-Delhi, which houses thousands of Afghan refugees. Employing an ethnographic case study, the research finds that despite the lack of any codified refugee policy in India, the refugees are being aided in many possible ways. The paper, thus, concludes that Afghan refugees do live a quality life in Delhi's Bhogal.

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“…Establishing legalised residence can prove difficult for people who entered India irregularly, especially those fleeing persecutions in their home country. Children born in India to foreigner parents also must satisfy the residence time frame as Indian nationality law largely follows the jus sanguinis (citizenship by right of blood) principle (Bentz, 2013).…”

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A Place Called Home: The Sense of Belonging of the Afghan Hindu and Sikh Diaspora in India

Ghosh

2022

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs

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The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 caused a humanitarian catastrophe in the country that triggered en masse exodus of a new wave of Afghan refugees desperate to flee the clutches of the Taliban. Although Pakistan and Iran had traditionally been the two main destinations of refuge for Afghans, yet for some Afghans—especially for the non-Muslim minority communities of Afghanistan, namely the Afghan Hindus and Sikhs—India has always been the foremost destination for refuge. The article aims to understand the experiences of the mentioned communities, as they moved from pre-conflict, to conflict, displacement and finally to the settlement phase in India. Thus, the article throws light on the experiences of Afghan Hindus and Sikhs both in their home and host countries and, in the process, engages with various aspects of the negotiations and marginalisation endured by them. It then strives to explore their sense of belonging at the scales of state, individual and community by discussing the significance and impact of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, specifically for the members of Afghan Hindu and Sikh diaspora in India. A plethora of research has been produced that focuses on various aspects of India’s relation with Afghanistan, but the issues of the Afghan religious minorities in India remained a neglected topic of scholarly research. This article attempts to remedy this lack of literature by examining the unexplored dimension of India’s engagement and support for Afghan Sikhs and Hindus.

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Afghan refugees in Indo-Afghan relations

Cited by 5 publications

References 38 publications

Building sustainable and decent refugee livelihoods through adult education? Interplay between policies and realities of five refugee groups

Building sustainable and decent refugee livelihoods through adult education? Interplay between policies and realities of five refugee groups

Afghan Refugees in India: A Case Study of Bhogal

A Place Called Home: The Sense of Belonging of the Afghan Hindu and Sikh Diaspora in India

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