(Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, 2022-12) Canefe, Nergis
As an alternative, this commentary is written in part as a preamble to this special issue of the "Refugee Watch" to facilitate and expand collaboration and innovative thinking by bringing together critical approaches to Afghan and Ukrainian refugee crises under the aegis of postcolonial conditionalities of forced migration studies and with specific reference to post-Soviet geographies of displacement. Part of the present historical task is to reveal and trace the textured histories of imperial and neoimperial legacies in the post-Soviet spaces of identity, belonging and survival. It is high time that we begin to envisage a ‘global postcolonial’ condition and systematically expand our understanding of postcolonial spaces of migration and dispossession.