International Migration-India Bangladesh International Border
The demographic consequences of illegal immigration from Bangladesh to India has led to a distinct communal polarisation and resulted in what may be termed as an emerging conflict. In the long term it has the potential of plunging the border regions of the two countries into a bloody battlefield. The conflict, fueled by the anxieties of the people of the receiving state that they will lose their land and their jobs to people, who are prepared to work at lower wages, is most intense in the West Bengal, Meghalaya and Assam borderlands.
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