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Purpose of the CARG
The DRC has assembled a Centre Advisory and Review Group
(CARG), which will oversee the work of the DRC and act as a quality
control committee. It is anticipated that the CARG will meet annually,
and in March/April 2006 it will assist in a mid-term review of the
DRC's work programme.
Members of the CARG
Individual members of the CARG have been selected for their wide
range of experience both in research and in the dissemination of
research to the policy community and to the general public. Current
members of the CARG are (brief biographies of members are given
below):
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Rahul Bose,
Independent Film-Maker, Santiniketan, India |
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Frank Laczko,
Head of Research, International Organization for Migration (IOM),
Geneva |
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Paulina Makinwa-Adebusoye,
Centre for Development and Population Activities, Lagos, Nigeria |
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Sharon Stanton
Russell, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA |
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The CARG is also supported by one or more DFID representatives from the Central Research Department or the Migration team, or both. |
| Rahul
Bose |
Rahul Bose is a documentary
film maker, activist and manager of an organic small-holding
and restaurant in rural West Bengal in India. His films focus
on socio-cultural and artistic issues and include ‘Ghore
Baire’ (Home and the World) on the internal migration
of manual workers in West Bengal (2003), ‘Of Drums and
Drummers’, a film based on Ram Dayal Munda, a Munda
activist who put forward the idea of a separate Jharkhand
state in India (1996) and ‘Non Formal Education’,
a film on the literacy campaign in Calcutta (1991). He has
worked for the dock and textile labour unions in Bombay. He
is a member of Samparka, an organisation of artists against
communalism. He is also a supervisor/teacher of short film
making courses at the Film Studies Centre in Jadavpur University,
Calcutta.
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| Frank
Laczko |
Dr Frank Laczko is
the Chief of the Research and Publications Division of the
International Organisation for Migration (IOM) which has its
headquarters in Geneva. IOM is an intergovernmental organisation
with 101 member states and 165 offices worldwide. Dr Laczko
joined IOM in 1995 and held posts in Budapest and Vienna before
moving to Geneva in January 2000. Prior to joining IOM he
worked for a short time for UNHCR, and helped to develop an
integration programme for Bosnian refugees in Central Europe.
Educated at the University of Leeds and the University of
Stockholm, he worked first in the field of social policy,
specialising in research relating to the consequences of population
ageing, poverty in Europe, and labour market policy.
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| Paulina
Makinwa-Adebusoye |
Paulina Makinwa-Adebusoye
was made a Fellow of the Social Science Academy of Nigeria in
2001, and an IUSSP Laureate in 1999 for an ‘Outstanding
Contribution to African Demography’. She was President
of the Social Science Council of Nigeria (1986-87), President
of the Population Association of Nigeria (1987-1995) and Rockefeller
Foundation Resident Scholar at Bellagio Study and Conference
Centre, Italy, in 1990.
In her professional career, Professor Makinwa-Adebusoye was
Director of the Food Security and Sustainable Development Division
of the UN Economic Commission for Africa from 1997 to 2002,
before taking up the post of Country Director of the Centre
for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) in Lagos,
Nigeria. Before that she held a UNFPA-assisted position as Chief
Technical Advisor (CTA) on Population and Development and expert
on gender to the Department of Population Activities in the
Nigerian Ministry of Health. From 1989-1996 she was Head of
the Population Research Unit of the Nigerian Institute for Social
and Economic Research (NISER), and before that she was Professor
of Geography at the University of Benin.
Her work on migration has included coordination of research
sponsored by IDRC and UNFPA on internal and international migration
and urbanisation in Nigeria, as part of a larger study involving
seven Francophone West African countries, and direction of a
NISER/Rockefeller Foundation-sponsored study on Women Migrants
to Urban Centres in Nigeria.
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| Sharon
Stanton Russell |
Sharon Stanton Russell
is a Senior Research Scholar in the network for International
Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she
chairs the Steering Group of the Inter-University Committee
on International Migration and directs the Mellon-MIT Program
on Non-Governmental Organisations and Forced Migration. A
political scientist, Dr Russell holds a PhD from MIT and Master’s
degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and
the University of Chicago. Her research and publications focus
on global migration trends and policies; the relationship
of migration to economic and social development; and on forced
migration. Her publications include International Migration
and International Trade, International Migration
and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, Migration
Patterns of US Foreign Policy Interest, Asylum Policies
in Developed Countries: National Security Concerns and Regional
Issues, Migrant Remittances and Development
and Demography and National Security (co-edited with
the late Myron Weiner).
Dr Russell has been a consultant on population and human resource
development issues with the Economic Commission for Europe,
the United Nations Development Programme, private foundations,
and the World Bank. She was a member of the United Nations
Expert Group on Population Distribution and Migration, preparatory
to the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development,
and the earlier United Nations Expert Group on International
Migration Policies and the Status of Female Migrants. Under
the auspices of the National Academy of Science’s Committee
on Population, Dr Russell was a member of the expert panel
on Global Population Projections, and currently serves on
the Roundtable on the Demography of Forced Migration (IOM).
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