International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
Year : 2018, Volume : 8, Issue : 7
First page : ( 76) Last page : ( 86)
Online ISSN : 2249–2496.

Environmental migrants, internal security and northeast India

Gogoi Biplob

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Debraj Roy College, Golaghat, Assam, India

Online published on 1 August, 2019.

Abstract

International community has recognized that environmental concerns are directly or indirectly linked with internal security of nation states or regions within both competitive and cooperative frameworks of political economy and therefore the dimension of environment can be added as a third pillar to military and economic dimensions of security. Noted scholars like Homer Dixon and others tried to identify links between environmental scarcity and acute conflicts with the contention that environmental change leads to social change. The economy of India's North eastern states is inextricably linked to their ecology. In the Northeast India, environmental migrants’ movements since the mid twentieth century confirm the linkage between immigrants and internal insecurity. This paper tries to establish the fact that environmental migrants have played an important role in contributing to the regional clustering of violence and the diffusion of low intensity conflicts by bringing in a change in the domestic balance of power in the Northeastern region of India.

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Keywords

Environment, Security, Northeast India, Immigrants, Conflict.

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