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Environmental Displacement in South Asia

Category: Cyclone Aila

Climate change Cyclone Aila

Living with climate change in Sundarbans, India

By Sirpa Tenhunen | October 25, 2019January 2, 2020 by Sirpa Tenhunen

Sundarbans, the mangrove delta area, which belongs to both India and Bangladesh, is one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to climate change. Erratic weather, storms, and the rising seawater have already been contributing to a steady flow of migration from the area to the megacity Kolkata and even cities further away. In 2009, the…

Cyclone Aila India Sundarbans

Education for All! How far are we from the goal posts?

By Dayabati Roy | March 26, 2019October 25, 2019 by Dayabati Roy

How does the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (RTE), progress in India? Have the RTE Act begun to realize the goals that it set to achieve within a stipulated period? The answers seem to be not so optimistic as far as the education of the children in Sunderbans is concerned.…

Cyclone Aila India Sundarbans

Is rural economy thriving in post-Aila Sunderbans, India?

By Dayabati Roy | January 20, 2019October 25, 2019 by Dayabati Roy

This question began to haunt me since a doctoral student who himself is from the Sunderbans told me that the cyclone Aila (2009) had helped their economy to prosper. Hearing this I was stunned. I never imagined that the cyclone Aila, which had devastated the economy of Sunderbans and uprooted thousands of people from their…

Bangladesh Cyclone Aila

Environmental displacement and socio-economic status in Khulna, Bangladesh

By Jasim Uddin | January 20, 2019January 20, 2019 by Jasim Uddin

I recently traveled to Khulna city and tried to experience life in one of its slums the way locals do through ethnographic research. My specific intention was to learn about the socio-economic lives of the migrants who had left their area of origin due to environmental reasons.  During the first few days of my fieldwork,…