Immigration Problem In Bangladesh

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Abstract: This paper aims to investigate into the immigration problem between India and Bangladesh. India and Bangladesh continue to be related to disputes along the common border. The purpose of the paper is to explore those narratives which are local and based to the opposite of securitization process. The process of securitization is the dominant paradigm of security which effects the life of people who are somehow related with cross border activity for the variety of reasons. The problem of the immigration is also investigated with the prism of trade network and communication between India and Bangladesh. After analyzing the local narratives of India-Bangladesh immigration problem, it puts forth few suggestion to resolve the problem of …show more content…
In this particular areas there is an ongoing influx of migrants. The problem of cross-border migration is sometimes complicated by religious factor. Either the people of the minority communities look to the option of taking shelter in the neighboring country frustrated with majoritarian insensitivities, or remain potential refugees or illegal migration. Social networks indicates any set of similarity which is involved in that particular connection because of some common thinking and agenda. Networks sites may be individual, organization and localities. The other major issue pertains to the large influx of Bangladeshi migrants into India. Over the years, their number has reached the unbelievable figure of 15 million. This problem is no longer confined to a few Border States along the Indo- Bangladesh border. These migrants are now seen in as far-off places as Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. These Bangladeshis have taken over most of the low-paying jobs in a number of states, thereby depriving the local Indian population of sources of livelihood. It is true that the migration from that part of erstwhile India had continued even prior to the partition of the country. But after the creation of Pakistan and later Bangladesh, such migration is illegal and has to be stopped. Against this background, it is interesting to see some Bangladeshi intellectuals advocating the theory of …show more content…
Out of a combination of despair and political pressure, the government of India has built barbed wire fencing on parts of both Assam and West Bengal sides of the border. Fencing programmer of 358 kms and 159 kms in south Bengal and Assam respectively has been sanctioned. Other measures such as regular patrolling and checkposts continue. But these have not stemmed the flow of either people or goods; indeed, it is no secret that border guards on either side accept and demand bribes from those seeking to cross illegally. Migration is not a natural human phenomenon. It occurs in varying degrees worldwide, few countries in the world have successfully contained it, and be it a superpower like the United States or a small country like Germany. Especially illegal immigration cannot be stopped, one must go a step further and say that it can only be contained or regulated. Or rather, it can be only negotiated by the process of