Priyali Sur

Priyali Sur is a social development expert and journalist focusing on migration and refugee rights. She is the founder of The Azadi Project.

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A protester holds a sign that reads “NO STATELESS PEOPLE” during a protest against the National Register of Citizens in Kolkata, India, in September 2019.
A protester holds a sign that reads “NO STATELESS PEOPLE” during a protest against the National Register of Citizens in Kolkata, India, in September 2019.

A Year After Rendering Millions Stateless, India Has Yet to Hear a Single Appeal
Argument
Priyali Sur
An asylum-seeker from Mauritania looks through the bars of a fence at a U.S.-Mexico border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, on May 31.
An asylum-seeker from Mauritania looks through the bars of a fence at a U.S.-Mexico border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, on May 31.

Why Record Numbers of African Migrants Are Showing Up at the U.S.-Mexican Border
Argument
Priyali Sur
Migrants and refugees sitting in a tent of a camp station wait to cross the Greece-Macedonia (also referred as Former Yugoslavia Rebublic of Makedonia) border, near the village of Idomeni on November 19, 2015. Countries along the migrant route through the Balkans have begun tightening restrictions on the wave people crossing their borders by allowing entry only to those fleeing war, aid workers and officials said on November 19. AFP PHOTO / SAKIS MITROLIDIS (Photo credit should read SAKIS MITROLIDIS/AFP/Getty Images)
Migrants and refugees sitting in a tent of a camp station wait to cross the Greece-Macedonia (also referred as Former Yugoslavia Rebublic of Makedonia) border, near the village of Idomeni on November 19, 2015. Countries along the migrant route through the Balkans have begun tightening restrictions on the wave people crossing their borders by allowing entry only to those fleeing war, aid workers and officials said on November 19. AFP PHOTO / SAKIS MITROLIDIS (Photo credit should read SAKIS MITROLIDIS/AFP/Getty Images)

The Pariahs of the Global Refugee Flood
The South Asia Channel
Priyali Sur
To go with Afghanistan unrest Taliban refugees,FOCUS by Anuj Chopra In this photograph taken on May 21, 2015, an Afghan woman with her children displaced by ongoing fighting against Taliban militants sit inside a tent at a makeshift camp in Kunduz, north of Kabul. Civilians are bearing the brunt of a large-scale insurgent offensive in Kunduz province, the keystone of the Taliban's summer fighting season which is expected to be the bloodiest in a decade. AFP PHOTO / SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)
To go with Afghanistan unrest Taliban refugees,FOCUS by Anuj Chopra In this photograph taken on May 21, 2015, an Afghan woman with her children displaced by ongoing fighting against Taliban militants sit inside a tent at a makeshift camp in Kunduz, north of Kabul. Civilians are bearing the brunt of a large-scale insurgent offensive in Kunduz province, the keystone of the Taliban's summer fighting season which is expected to be the bloodiest in a decade. AFP PHOTO / SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)

Women, Peace, and Security in Afghanistan
The South Asia Channel
Priyali Sur
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