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Assess the problems being faced by India on account of illegal migration into the country.

  • UPSC 2010
  • 40 marks
  • India and South Asia

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India receives undocumented migrants mainly from Bangladesh, across a 4,096 km border, and in smaller numbers from Myanmar; Nepali movement is lawful under the 1950 Treaty. Assessing the problems means separating the documented from the asserted. Myron Weiner ("Security, Stability, and International Migration", 1992–93) showed that states see migrants as political, cultural, economic or diplomatic…

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