ABSTRACT
The introductory chapter discusses the issues of migrants, migration, and criminalisation of cross-border mobility in the global context and then geographically shifts the focus of the discussion to the Indo-Bangladesh border. It elaborates on the history of the Indo-Bangladesh border which includes its changing contours, the social activities at and around it, as well as the on-going process of fencing and other geo-political concerns and then discusses some of the issues around flows of people from Bangladesh to India. This is followed by a discussion of the Foreigners Act, 1946, under which the Bangladeshi women migrants have been apprehended and incarcerated for their mobility across borders and the processes through they will be returned to Bangladesh on completion of their terms.
