Industrial Consultancy & Sponsored Research (IC&SR) , IIT Madras
Liminal Spaces of Citizenship: A Case Study of Tibetan Exile Community
Funding Agency Details
Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Description
The project undertook extensive research in Tibetan settlement in India in Karnataka, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh. The multi sited project took a multi-scalar approach to data collection from settlement, district, state and central authorities along with ethnography.
Problem Statement
This project focusses on the gaps in the political and materialised constructions of citizenship as experiences by Tibetan refugees in India. The project examines the bureaucratic and political negotiations of ‘citizenship’ within the dominant constructions of political identity within the community.
Outcome of the Research
3 Peer reviewed international journal papers
1 Peer Reviewed national journal paper.
1 Conference paper.