The Social Status of Kashmiri Pandit Community in Exile: Refugee or Internally Displaced: Lalit k kaul
The Social Status of Kashmiri Pandit Community in Exile: Refugee or Internally Displaced Lalit K Kaul When it comes to defining our social status-while in exile- enormous flexibility has been employed in defining it by usage of the terms like “migrant”, “refugee” and “internally displaced”. The transition between these three nodes has been seamless. What hurts our cause most is to assign ourselves a status of “migrant” for it at once denies the genocide committed on, and forced exile of, our community. What adds insult to the injury is usage of “migrant” in our context by our spokesperson who engage themselves in a chat with the media and because we have many organizations taking up the community’s cause, therefore, there are as many spokesperson. However the question that needs to be settled is: are we “refugee” or “Internally displaced persons”? An attempt is made here to find answers for it. “Internally Displaced Person (IDP)”: Forced movement of a genus within the same country oc...