cfp: Immigration, Nation and Public History
- Migration history in school curricula
- Museums and migration (including exhibitions, public programmes, collections, and community engagement)
- Migrant memorials
- Forced migration (eg. convict transportation, slavery, child migration) and its representations
- Migration in the news media
- Public attitudes towards migration, how they are represented (eg. opinion polls and their use)
- Family history/genealogy, and the discovery of immigrant ancestors
- Links between migration and tourism
- Links between national histories and migration histories
- Representations of indigenous peoples in ‘immigrant nations’
- Asylum seekers and refugees: historical and contemporary representations
- Representations of migration/migrants/migrant communities in film and television
- Migrant communities and individual’s self-representations
- Changing representations of migration given the so-called ‘failure of multiculturalism’ in Britain and Europe
Women and Partition by Pippa Virdee
A couple of new articles on women and partition:
Pippa Virdee, ‘Remembering partition: women, oral histories and the Partition of 1947.’ Oral History, Autumn 2013, Volume 41, No 3, pp. 49-62.
Abstract: This article explores key developments in the way Partition has been represented in the history of India and Pakistan. It more specifically examines how alternative silent voices have been become more visible in the past fifteen years in the historiography of Partition. This shift has been made possible with the use of oral testimonies to document accounts of ordinary people’s experiences of this event in the history of India and Pakistan. The article then goes on to reflect on the author’s experiences of working in South Asia and the use of oral history as a radical and empowering tool in understanding women’s history in Pakistan.
Follow link for details: http://www.oralhistory.org.uk/journal-search.php?parameter=issue&searchkey=86
Pippa Virdee, ‘The Heart Divided: Writing the Human Drama of Partition in India/Pakistan’
http://imowblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/clio-talks-back-heart-divided-writing.html
Recording Punjab’s darkest hours for posterity
Recording Punjab’s darkest hours for posterity – article on the 1947 Partition Archive project which is recording narratives of Punjabis about their memories of being uprooted following the Partition of Punjab.
Link to the The Tribune, 25 September 2013
Special Issue, Journal of Refugee Studies
Some of you may be interested in a couple of articles in the current edition of Journal of Refugee Studies.
Special Issue: The Refugee in the Postwar World, 1945–1960
Guest Editors: Anna Holian and G. Daniel Cohen
Volume 25 Issue 3 September 2012
Cabeiri Debergh Robinson, ‘Too Much Nationality: Kashmiri Refugees, the South Asian Refugee Regime, and a Refugee State, 1947–1974’
Abstract
This article examines the development of a regional refugee regime through an examination of the international context in which ‘Kashmiri refugees’ emerged as rights-bearing political subjects. I distinguish between the refugee regime that was developing in Europe at the end of the Second World War and the refugee regime that was developing to handle the integration of Partition refugees into the new nation-states of Pakistan and India during the Partition of British colonial India in 1947. I also describe how the ‘Kashmiri refugee’ emerged as a distinct political subject within the South Asian refugee regime through treaties between India and Pakistan and provincial legal provisions, designated administrative practices by the national governments, and the eventual creation of a ‘refugee electorate’ in Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The constitution of a modern regional refugee regime that recognized refugees as inherently political subjects enables a critical perspective on the globalizing claims of the ‘international refugee regime’.
Tahir Naqvi, ‘Migration, Sacrifice and the Crisis of Muslim Nationalism’
Abstract
Drawing on oral histories and British, Indian, and Pakistani archives of the post-Partition era, this article considers the historical subjectivity of refugees to Pakistan who came from the minority-Muslim provinces of India. In contrast to Muslim refugees who arrived under the cover of a bilateral transfer of population, Pakistan’s leadership discouraged residents of the minority-Muslim provinces from leaving India. I trace how migrants (muhajirs) from the minority-Muslim provinces imagine their migration in terms of the theologically informed concept of ‘sacrifice’. I contend that the sacrificial imaginary mediates the rupture that Pakistan’s sovereignty created between membership and inclusion within the Muslim nation.
PRG meeting October 2010 – University of Cambridge
The meeting was kindly hosted by Dr Tahir Kamran, Iqbal Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.
Ajit Singh, Emeritus Professor, University of Cambridge
Inaugural speech and some reflections on Punjab development
Kaveri Qureshi, University of Sussex
‘Hopes and Disappointment: Transnational Education in Punjab’
Iqbal Chawla, currently visiting University of Southampton ‘Lord Mountbatten’s Response to the Communal Riots in the Punjab: An Overview’
Ali Usman Qasmi, Royal Holloway, University of London ‘Sacred Violence vs State Violence: A Study of the Multiple Narratives of the Punjab Disturbances of 1953’
Shyamal Kataria, Royal Holloway, University of London
‘Sikh Refugee ‘Collective Memories’ as a Source of Ethno-national Conflict: The Case of Khalistan’
Punjab Research Group 
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