ABSTRACT
This chapter evaluates the institutional response given to communities displaced due to chronic flood disasters in the State of Assam. Through a process of elite interviews with senior bureaucratic officers and political leaders in the Assam State Administration, the chapter constructs the administrative perception of climate change-induced migration and applies the theory of incrementalism in public policy to explain why despite the separation of powers and a legal mandate state administration fails to deliver rational solutions to a highly vulnerable population, and examines in the process mimicking and fostering of the negative political discourse attached to migrations.
