ABSTRACT
Over the past few decades, Assam, the northeast frontier state of India, has witnessed large-scale legal and illegal migration from their contiguous neighborhood and now it has become a home to millions of migrants which turns Assam into the contemporary migration and identity politics in massive scale giving rise to intense apprehension among its smaller indigenous communities and outsiders. This chapter explicates how identity shapes the politics of illegal migration in Assam, national, and local scale. Much of the impetus for this special issue comes from an ongoing debate within the perspective of NRC and citizenship. Further its emphasis led on historical perspective of current debate along with the indifferent attitude of the Indian Union Government in addressing the issue and its magnitude.
