- What are the areas, identities, ways and mechanisms of marginalisation and exclusion in specific regions and countries in the contemporary global economic context?
- What are the emerging perspectives, analytical frameworks and categories of exclusion and inclusion and critiques of existing approaches?
- How are the questions of citizenship and social inclusion/exclusion linked both analytically and in practice?
- At an empirical level, what are the inclusionary citizenship policies, practices and experiences in different regions and countries?
- More specifically, what are the experiences of internal and international migrants and their citizenship rights both in the regions and countries of origin and destination?
- In the context of rapid urbanisation in the ‘developing countries’, what are the challenges of urban citizenship, rights and access to urban space, social exclusion and inclusionary practices?
- What are the possible ways and mechanisms of inclusion; what are the important spheres/domains where measures of inclusion are attempted by the State and policy and what are the institutional mechanisms in place and their impact?
- What are the nature and forms of discrimination, conflict and violence related to distribution of resources, public expenditure, services, infrastructure; exclusions in other areas like labour markets, etc? What are the best practices evolved/adopted to mitigate such conflicts and discriminations?
- What are the other issues and forms of obstacles to social inclusion pertaining to gender, class, caste, race, religion, region, ethnicity, disability, etc in various regions and countries?