REFUGEE WATCH A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration Refugees, Migrants, Violence and The Transformation of Cities 50 Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group http://www.mcrg.ac.in Editor Paula Banerjee Book Review Editor: Anita Sengupta Editorial Assistant: Priya Singh Editorial Board Editorial Advisory Board Sanjay Barbora (India) Mahendra P Lama (India) Meghna Guhathakurta (Bangladesh) P. Saravanamuttu (Sri Lanka) Atig Ghosh (India) Ranabir Samaddar (India) Nasreen Chowdhary (India) Jason Miller (Myanmar) Jeevan Thiagarajah (Sri Lanka) Rubina Saigol (Pakistan) Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (UK) Alice Bloch (UK) Publisher Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group GC-45, Sector-III, First Floor Salt Lake, Kolkata-700106 INDIA Tel: +91 33 2337 0408 Email:
[email protected] Printed at : Graphic Image New Market, New Complex, West Block 2nd Floor, Room No. 115, Kolkata-700 087 Refugee Watch is brought out as part of the educational material for the CRG Programme on Cities, Rural Migrants and the Urban Poor: Issues of Violence and Social Justice. The contributions of Ford Foundation are hereby acknowledged. REFUGEE WATCH A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration Refugees, Migrants, Violence and The Transformation of Cities 50 Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group REFUGEE WATCH CONTENTS Essays Ranabir Samaddar Borders of Labour and Refugee Economies 1 Tommaso Manfredini Freedom under Control: Jurisdiction, Human Rights, and “Freedom of the Sea” 14 Tanika Sarkar Remaking Caste and Work: Calcutta Municipal Methars and Their Strikes in 1928 30 Somdatta Chakraborty