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Discuss the Consequences of illegal cross-border migration in India’s north-eastern region.

  • UPSC 2022
  • 15 marks
  • India and South Asia

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The North-East shares about 98% of its boundary with Bangladesh, Myanmar, Bhutan, China and Nepal, and is joined to the rest of India only by the Siliguri Corridor. Its many small communities treat land as the basis of identity, so even modest inflows produce outsized politics. Myron Weiner's Sons of the Soil (1978) supplies the…

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  • Demographic and identity consequences
  • Social and ethnic conflict
  • Economic consequences
  • Political and legal consequences
  • Security consequences
  • Diplomatic and federal consequences
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