Challenge of Statelessness: India’s Response

Speaker: Prof. V. Suryanarayan, former Director, Centre for South and South East Asian Studies, University of Madras, Chennai

 

Chair: Shri K.P. Fabian

 

Stateless people are spread across the world. Denied a nationality, from cradle to grave, they undergo suffering and humiliation. Right to education, health care, political participation, even retention of cultural identity are denied to them. The talk will focus on the evolution of India’s policy towards stateless people, refugee phenomenon in India, proposed amendment to the Citizenship Act and the hopes and aspirations of the Rohingya and Sri Lankan Tamil refugees who live in the country