The migration discourse

It is a matter of record that several politicians in the north-east have wooed immigrant populations to ramp up electoral support, over the years transforming illegal migration into legal by using the Indian practice of “regularizing” an illegality by administrative and legislative fiat. Resentment accruing from such political manipulation has often exploded into chaos—the Nellie massacre in Assam in 1983 was only the more infamous of such incidents—and has spawned student movements and armed rebellions.

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