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    K4D Myanmar : infographic
    (2017-11)
    This infographic visual illustrates “Knowledge for Democracy Myanmar” with subheadings depicting interrelationships between leadership and policy making. The design incorporates ideas of collaboration, citizen engagement and evidence-based research, concluding: “Research evidence builds bridges between communities and the policy makers of Myanmar.”
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    When Home is the Edge of the Nation Dialogue with ‘Border’ people of Rajasthan, West Bengal and Bangladesh
    (2012-02) Gill, Bani; Manchanda, Rita; Ghosh, Sahana; Bose, Tapan Kumar
    South Asia Forum for Human Rights (SAFHR) is part of the ‘Auditing Conflict Resolution and Partition in South Asia’ project that conducts an audit of human rights at the local level in border areas. The aim of this report is to critique securitization of the Bengal borderland. It attempts to overcome a “partitioned academy” and offers a more robust analysis on violence and violations in the borderland through incorporating people’s narratives from both sides. The socioeconomic fluidity of the borderland fosters multiple linkages and interactions; albeit ‘irregular’ the flow of exchanges destabilizes the notion of illegality.
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    Human rights and peace audit exercises on 'Partitions' as a method to resolve ethno-nationalist conflicts in South Asia, phase II : final technical report
    (2012-05)
    The South Asia Forum for Human Rights (SAFHR) critically interrogates from a rights-based perspective, the ability of statist divisions based on “peace” accords to resolve longstanding ethno- nationalist self-determination conflicts, with consequences like those evident in Sri Lanka. This study objective is to identify political and legal mechanisms and their effects, as well as moving forward interventionist processes like civil society associations that can contribute to a peace making process that is more participatory, inclusive and accountable. The report audits research, articles, field studies, and study outputs of the project and related to the project.
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    People, nation and state : chronicles of struggles; Chittagong Hill Tracts, Kashmir, Naga Hills and Sri Lanka
    (2012-02) Bose, Tapan
    In asymmetric wars between the armed state which possesses huge fire power, and non-state insurgent groups, ordinary people have suffered immensely. While some of these conflicts have been resolved through negotiations and peace agreements, the results are not encouraging as the states have often delayed implementing terms of the agreements and held up political reforms. In this publication, we have focused on histories and contexts of conflicts between state and non-state formations espousing the right to self-determination.
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    Final technical report of the project on gender and migration : negotiating rights; a women’s movement perspective
    (Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi, IN, 2012-06) Agnihotri, Indu; Mazumdar, Indrani; Neetha, N.; Devi Mohan, Taneesha; Chaudhry, Shruti; Pillai, Nandan
    The project devised a new method for assessing women’s work/employment situations through separation of paid and unpaid work, which has allowed for construction of a picture of female labour migration previously camouflaged in the official data by the dominance of marriage migration. At another level, the project investigated cross-region long distance marriage, to explore factors that determine movement of young brides to distant and different cultural regions. The research shows diverse patterns of migration and how migrant women workers are excluded from a range of citizenship rights: as migrant workers, as migrant women and as migrating citizens.
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    Missing daughters in Asia : trends and challenges
    (BRAC Development Institute, Dhaka, BD, 2011) Mahmud, Simeen; Huq, Lopita
    While economic growth, poverty reduction and improvements in the standard of living have gradually led to a rise in female life expectancy and more balanced sex ratios, the female deficit has not yet disappeared. Gender disparity has become concentrated in children aged 0-5 and at birth. For the conference, this phenomenon was called “missing daughters.” The report covers a workshop designed to facilitate dialogue on missing daughters in Asia, providing a forum where research, strategies and ideas could be openly exchanged and analyzed. Information about the background of each country (Bangladesh, China, India and Vietnam) and specific issues are provided.
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    Final technical progress report / Revisiting the devaluation of daughters in Bangladesh : continuity or change?
    (BRAC Development Institute, Dhaka, BD, 2011) Mahmud, Simeen; Huq, Lopita
    The major finding from the study is that the phenomenon of ‘missing daughters’ seems to be on the decline, at least in Bangladesh. But there is no room for complacency. Bangladesh, China, India and Vietnam have a shared pattern of gender discrimination that results in excessive levels of female mortality in most age groups, leading to higher than average ratios of men to women in their overall populations. Policy efforts continue to be piecemeal, yet it is clear that the problem of son preference – and daughter aversion – is rooted systemically and must be addressed simultaneously on a number of different fronts.
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    Proceedings : International Workshop on Gender, Migrant Workers and Citizenship in Greater Mekong Sub-region: Economic and Political Perspectives for a World in Crisis
    (Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, TH, 2009) Kusakabe, Kyoko; Pearson, Ruth
    The report on workshop proceedings focuses on Burmese migrant women’s working conditions and rights, as well as the underlying drivers in both Thailand and Burma, which have lead to establishment of new industries and workers in the border areas of these two countries. Their experiences of rights and entitlements as migrant workers and as citizens, is mediated in both the country of destination, and of origin, and directly shaped by prevailing gender relations and norms as well as state regulation in these different places. The workshop included scholars working on labour migration issues in Asia, Europe and the Americas.
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    Gender, cross-border migrant workers and citizenship : a case study of the Burmese-Thai border; final technical report
    (Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, TH, 2011) Kusakabe, Kyoko; Pearson, Ruth; Zin Mar Oo; Naw Htee Heh; Jaroenrith, Kanokporn
    Through the study of migration processes and labour market participation of Burmese women workers in Thai border factories, production and investment in Thailand is found to be affected by both supply and demand for cheap female labour. The research uncovers labour market effects and implications for gendered well-being and entitlements, and how women migrant workers struggle for their dignity in relation to the factory, their colleagues, and their family members. The ways in which different state policies in Thailand interact to create new cheap labour pools in the border area are also examined.
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    Border industrialization and labour mobility : a case of Burmese migrant workers in border area factories
    (2008) Kusakabe, Kyoko; Pearson, Ruth
    This paper explores how contradictory economic and migration policies in border industrial areas control the mobility of migrants, trapping women migrant workers, and creating ‘disposable’ workers who are not the responsibility of either sending or importing countries. The paper analyses some of the implications of current and future migration policy based on the situation of factory workers in the Thai border town of Mae Sot where up to 3.4 million Burmese workers are currently employed. The ambivalent policy of the Thai government allows feelings of threat and informal harassment of migrant workers to spread.