The Political Exclusion of (Illegal) Bangladeshi Immigrants in Assam
The main focus of this paper lies in explaining the hypothesis that the exclusion of the (illegal) Bangladeshi immigrants in Assam has been the outcome of a continuous historical process undertaken by the political leaders of the state, rather than as a result of any particular mass uprising from ‘...
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The main focus of this paper lies in explaining the hypothesis that the exclusion of the (illegal) Bangladeshi immigrants in Assam has been the outcome of a continuous historical process undertaken by the political leaders of the state, rather than as a result of any particular mass uprising from ‘below’. This push from a top-down perspective changed the issue from one of economic consequences to a more religious nature, also culminating in a failed project to assert a unique indigenous ‘Assamese’ identity in relation to the ‘other’, all the while relegating the more usual aspects of open versus closed borders that figure in immigration discourses to the background.
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| spelling | doaj-art-bbe59138a72d48ffb3f652ebd35baaca2025-08-20T03:06:01ZengMilano University PressGlocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation2283-79492015-11-013The Political Exclusion of (Illegal) Bangladeshi Immigrants in AssamJeemut Pratim Das 0https://orcid.org/0009-0006-3054-1328Jawaharlal Nehru University The main focus of this paper lies in explaining the hypothesis that the exclusion of the (illegal) Bangladeshi immigrants in Assam has been the outcome of a continuous historical process undertaken by the political leaders of the state, rather than as a result of any particular mass uprising from ‘below’. This push from a top-down perspective changed the issue from one of economic consequences to a more religious nature, also culminating in a failed project to assert a unique indigenous ‘Assamese’ identity in relation to the ‘other’, all the while relegating the more usual aspects of open versus closed borders that figure in immigration discourses to the background. https://ojs-unimi-test.4science.cloud/index.php/glocalism/article/view/21230BangladeshiimmigrantsAssampolitical exclusionhistorical |
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| title | The Political Exclusion of (Illegal) Bangladeshi Immigrants in Assam |
| title_full | The Political Exclusion of (Illegal) Bangladeshi Immigrants in Assam |
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| title_short | The Political Exclusion of (Illegal) Bangladeshi Immigrants in Assam |
| title_sort | political exclusion of illegal bangladeshi immigrants in assam |
| topic | Bangladeshi immigrants Assam political exclusion historical |
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