Migrant Solidarity Network - India

migrant justice & anti-border politics / abolish immigrant detention, stop NRC, fight for the freedom of movement.

Email: [email protected]

[Detention Solidarity @detsolnet]

Hello! We are reactivating this online space ✨and renewing our commitment to building knowledge and power against carceral institutions and practices, for those detained across the country and its occupations ✊🏾

A small thread on who we are & our past work:
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[Minke Hajer @MinkeHajer]

New Book Alert!

Today the book I co-authored with @maurizioambros8 on Irregular Migration finally came out!

https://t.co/Aj59OUSOQe

@IMISCOE
@DipartimentoSPS @rug_gmw

#IrregularMigration #IMISCOE #Reader #MigrationStudies #AcademicTwitter

[Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88]

Today, the SC has given one of the worst and most damaging civil rights judgments in its history.

The 2011 judgment in Arup Bhuyan’s case was one of the only checks against executive abuse of the UAPA. Today, the SC has removed that check.

[Detention Solidarity @detsolnet]

Very excited for the opportunity to share some of the work we were trying to do at @detsolnet last year.

[Migrant Solidarity Network - India @IndiaMigrant]

Both ethno-religious nationalisms and ethno-linguistics nationalisms in India exemplify a version of this theory.

[Migrant Solidarity Network - India @IndiaMigrant]

@AajeevikaBureau @R2NCNetwork @migrant_IN @detsolnet @migradetention

[Migrant Solidarity Network - India @IndiaMigrant]

We are collating a list of groups that constitute migrants or work with migrant (particularly international migrants/refugees) on issues of citizenship, labor, detention in India & have a digital presence. Please tag any organisations, collectives, networks you are familiar with.

[@summerspeaker.bsky.social @queersing]

This moment highlights hypocrisy & incoherence of so many.

Folks who condemn Palestinian resistance against Israeli occupation gleefully supporting Ukrainians hurling molotovs at invaders.

Antifascists dutifully holding their tongues about the reality of fascism in Ukraine.

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

to abolish all borders is to refuse the social organization of race and citizenship.

[Abdul Kalam Azad @abdulkazad]

Citizenship as Public Good. https://t.co/26e034iNwG

Excerpts of our chapter for IXR Report 2019-20 "Citizenship and the Mass Production of Statelessness in Assam" @harsh_mander @LtlBud @IndrajitRoyYork @yorkcitizenship @karwanemohabbat @CEStudies

[Eleventh Column @eleventhcolumn]

The #Hindutva project aims to distill '#refugees' from so-called '#infiltrators' through tools like the #CAA2019 and #NRC. The resistance to that must transcend narrow parameters of belongingness. | @Paresh_Hate

#migration #citizenship #nationality #BJP
https://t.co/lrUX8Xgfik

[Migrant Solidarity Network - India @IndiaMigrant]

The Rise of the Indian Detention Regime – Parichay – The Blog https://t.co/E3KrwtJdaq by @Paresh_Hate

[Migrant Solidarity Network - India @IndiaMigrant]

We will probe into what is the condition of the rest of the people who were declared as foreigners but could not be deported/sent back/extradited to Bangladesh between this period.

[Migrant Solidarity Network - India @IndiaMigrant]

We had filed an RTI at Ministry of Home Affairs to get the following information on the number of people deported/sent-back/extradited to Bangladesh between 1st January 2016 to 31st August 2020.

[Migrant Solidarity Network - India @IndiaMigrant]

However, Ministry of External Affairs was forwarded the same application who replied with the following:

[Migrant Solidarity Network - India @IndiaMigrant]

What is strange is the option of filing an RTI against BSF on the RTI online website curated and maintained by the central government. Why are they even there if they want to claim Second Schedule of the Act?

[Migrant Solidarity Network - India @IndiaMigrant]

We had filed an RTI against Border Security Force on 16/07/2020 asking the following questions. The request was forwarded to CPIO D.K. Boora (DIG OPS FHQ) on 17/07/2020. If we don't get a response by tomorrow, we will file a complaint to the Central Information Commission.

[Migrant Solidarity Network - India @IndiaMigrant]

This RTI was rejected on 17/08/2020 citing Section 24 of the Right to Information Act, 2005 wherein BSF claims to be an intelligence or security organisation exempted from providing information under the Second Schedule of the Act.

[Migrant Solidarity Network - India @IndiaMigrant]

https://t.co/LIK2DNwbiI

[Migrant Solidarity Network - India @IndiaMigrant]

Some responses to questions asked in the parliament in 2019 regarding the Assam Foreigners Tribunals and detention centres. The numbers are staggering.