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ABSTRACT The release of the final draft of the National Register of Citizen for the Indian state of Assam has created anxiety among more than four million people whose names are missing. It is not clear what will happen to those whose names may not appear in the final list, which is in the process. Historically, the population movement in the region started centuries back when India was under the British rule. In 1947, the British India was partitioned between India and Pakistan, and in 1971 the West and East Pakistan separated, and Bangladesh was born. Despite such changes in the territorial and political sovereignty, immigration and population movement in the India’s northeast from across the International border continues for many reasons, though the Bangladesh government does not accept it.