Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 25: Dr Vandhana Sharma, Director of the School of Languages and Literature, SMVDU, presented a paper “Home is when you own it: Invisible Diaspora striving for Visibility” in the 6th Global Conference on Diasporas: Exploring Critical Issues’ held at Mansfield College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom recently.
The paper was co-authored by M K Sharma, Additional District and Sessions Judge Udhampur who also attended the Conference. The joint paper aimed at calling attention to displaced persons from West Pakistan who are domiciled in the territory of J&K State since 1947 but have very anomalous status and rights within the State. The paper highlighted the grievances of this particular refugee diaspora community by analyzing the legacies of the partition and the ongoing contestation of the diasporic community over “home,” as these communities displaced sixty five years back have been forced to go invisible.
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