ABSTRACT
An interdisciplinary reading on migration helps us to understand that migration is not just an individual’s strategy of income alleviation but it can also be a flight from misery. One such kind of migration is out-migration from Assam, a northeastern state of India where the marginalised population comprising of Bengali speaking Muslims have been victims of identity struggle, citizenship entangle, and ethnic clashes. Based on evidence from the field, this chapter deals with the identity issue of a specific religious minority in Assam who has been struggling in their native state and also trying to prove their citizenship in the destination place, post-migration.
