Sourav Kumar Das teaches economics at Lalbaba College, Belur, Howrah. He works on rural development, tribal livelihoods, monetary policies, and consumption patterns among refugees.
Nidhi Chowdhary is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Lalbaba College, Howrah, India. Her research interests lie in human rights, peace studies, tribal studies, migration, and terrorism.

The global political economy is currently in the midst of a refugee crisis, one that is complex and that remains poorly researched and under-theorized within both economics and political science. There is little understanding of the many diverse situations that led to it, and refugees are all too often included in the category of forced migrants.