CIAO DATE: 06/2009
April 2007
The paper is divided into four sections: Migration; Illegal Migration and Policy Lacunae; Ethnic Politics and Internal Displacement; and State Responses to InternalDisplacement. In the first section I discuss the colonial policy environment, altered administrative boundaries and concepts and how all this aided/abetted large-scale migrations into the Northeast.
Resource link: Internal Displacement, Migration, and Policy in Northeastern India [PDF] - 730K