Aberration from the general trends of migration: The Displaced Nepalese in India'

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Aberration from the general trends of migration
The Displaced Nepalese in India.

• Group B
• Soni Jeetendra D. S. W. Perera
• Shiva K. Dhungana Seon Young Seo
• Sanghamitra Nath Shahriar Abu Zafar

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• The history of Nepal India relation
• 1950 Treaty of Peace and Friendship
• Open Border and unhindered flow of migrants
  across the border
• 1.7 Million Nepalese live in India, more than
  100000 women in various Indian brothels, every
  year around 12000 women are trafficked mostly to
  India. Lately, the number has snowballed because
  of conflict in Nepal.

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• The conflict dynamics and its relation to Open
  border in Nepal
• The displacement of people from their native
  places from Nepal. Large number of people are
  displaced to India across the border

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• This phenomenon of international migration is an
  aberration from the general trends of migration
  explained so far.
• Some latest (gu)estimate mentioned that every day
  around 10,000 people cross the border and most of
  them settle across UP, Uttaranchal, Bihar, Delhi,
  Himachal Pradesh, Kashmir and other parts of
  India.

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• We still could not find ways to define the stream
  of migration of this particular type. So it is
  our attempt to discuss this special case of
  migration of people across the border in South
  Asia.

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• Why are they migrating? To escape the atrocity of
  the security forces and to avoid the fear of
  being recruited by the Maoists as their militia.
• Who are the ones migrating?
• Where are they migrating?
• What activities are they involved at the place of
  destination?

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• This can be categorized as a case of
  international migration with typical features of
  internal migration.
• Since they are not irregular migrants, the Indian
  government does not feel the responsibility to
  address their rights.

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• The Nepalese government does not bother to look
  into the plights of these migrants at the place
  of destination as possible burden of managing
  IDPs in Nepal have been remarkably reduced by the
  migration to India.

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• The huge flow of migrants to India has developed
  negative sentiments among the local population of
  receiving places.
• They are considered as unwanted population at the
  place of destination
• They are involved in the labour market in a
  number of ways in the receiving places and
  contributing to lowering the wage rates in those
  areas.

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• They settle in the roadsides, under the bridges
  and other public places where they are subject to
  police harassment, sexual abuse and encounter
  other vulnerable situations.
• The migration occurs purely because of the push
  factors at the place of origin.

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• Scarcity of job opportunities compel migrants to
  become beggars or make them vulnerable to be
  exploited in some kinds of criminal activities.
• May cause environmental degradation and may live
  in unhygenic conditions with possibility of
  health hazards.

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• What next?
• Organize the civil society to advocate for the
  welfare of the migrants. Lobby with the Union and
  state governments that the welfare of migrants
  are taken care of by the state or \union
  governments.