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Throughout South Asia, questions of illegal immigration combined with those of national security have acquired politically explosive dimensions in recent years. Despite this, migration studies have remained, by and large, confined to the domails of economics and demography. Dealing with transborder migrations from Bangladesh to West Bengal, The Marginal Nation analyzes these issues within a richer perspective which accommodates the historical, cultural and geographic dimensions along with the economic and demographic. Written in an activist and interventionist mode, this book challenges the validity of the concept of the nation-state in the context of post-colonial South Asia. Ranbir Smaddar demystifies the constructs of borders and national territory by bringing to the fore the viewpoints of the migrants themselves. He questions the practical value of these terms by showing how the flow of people across the Indo-Bangladesh border is prompted by historical and social affinities, geographical contiguity, and the economic imperative. Pitted against the natural urge for survival, nation and border are easily marginalized in the minds of the people who then find illegal ways to tackle

Author

Raṇabīra Samāddāra

Publisher

Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9788170367444

Subjects

Sociology, Political Science, Science

Updated

2026-03-24