India is the country which believes in “vashudev kutubakam” which means whole world ,and the people on the earth are god’s child and we are one family. We believe in peace and love. India sharing their border with the country likes Pakistan, China, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, and Tibet. Although there was also conflicts between china borders and Pakistan border, but still India plays a balanced role in this border conflicts from last five to ten years by following their polices.
Historically, during the Indo-Pak partition times (1947) it suffers from massive mass migrations many of Hindu families coming into Indian region and many Muslim families moves towards the Pakistan region. Who are coming into the India they are known as the “ASYLUM SEEKER” that means not technically refugees as they did not lose their citizenship, they forced to live in refugee camps. A Refugee is an asylum seeker who is legally recognized by country.
What is a refugee?
According to United nation high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) The refugees are the people who have crossed the international border to find safety in another nearby country due to situations like war, border conflicts, violence, and prosecution. And who don’t want to go back to their country of origin or birthplace.
What is migrants?
All the people who move towards another country to find work, study, to escape poverty, to escape natural disaster, climate change. Legal migrates who are non-violate laws of host country, and non-legal or illegal migrants who violate the law of host country. These are some important terminology regarding refugee.
During Tibetan-china (1959) Tibetan uprising against China and Tibet whole country capture by china. Dalai Lama and his followers come to India as refugee. Indochina border also conflict is constant in news today . War of independence, Bangladesh (1971) during Indira Gandhi taken charge as a prime minister Bangla-Pak war , to control the influx of people india help to Bangladesh to gain independence.(1979) Afghanistan during soviet invasion, Russia attacks on Afghanistan, people who are migrants muslims are came to india and settled around the region of delhi. In Sri Lanka civil war (1985-2009) 1.37 lakh Sri Lankans are a cross the Palk Strait and come into India and live in Tamil Nadu in between 1983-1987.
The well-known case of Rohingya Muslims-2017, the prosecution in Myanmar against Rohingya their house are destroyed by other religious believed people and political parties, mass killing of rohingya due to these reasons they leaves Myanmar, and coming in to the India. According to UNHCR, 16,500 rohingya are in India and they provide an identity card to them. India on this part categorized them into as an “illegal immigrants” they are not accepted as a citizen of India, according to law of citizenship.
Chakma and hajong communities-(1964-1965) this all is migrants from Bangladesh and settled down in Arunachal Pradesh. In 2015 Supreme Court directed center to give citizenship by followed the citizenship amendment act.
Lots of prosecuted and harassed people from neighboring countries are spending their leave under the shelter of India. Day to day dealing with their economic and social impacts. As an economical, local finances and administrative capacities are overburdened, increase unemployment’s, already we are dealing with issue of population, their growth, density, health and education, all that sector where government spending money, burden on administrative policies too. Increase local demand for goods and service. Enhance cheap labor in market. These are all economic impacts.
Other social impacts are change in demography, local become minority in their own areas. And start a competition between them, conflicts between refugee and local communities. Also the international media focusing on the countries how they treat refugees in a bad and good manner, it’s also became an issue of international image of the host country.The International ranking also depends on this, second thing is government of host country has to make new policies regarding their needs for refugees, for example categories of refugees and literacy rates and their health, also too check they are threat to host nation or not. Because many terrorist group takes advantage of this kind of situation and works as a sleeper cell in host country, maybe they becoming a threat in the future. This all is the social impacts.
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