(Wl-2622)-Free Movement Regime and Ethnic Belonging in North East India

While the Government of India is mulling over scrapping the Free Movement Regime and fencing the India–Myanmar Border considering security reasons, both Mizoram and Nagaland governments perceive it as potentially disrupting the ethnic bonds among the communities across the border. The issue in question is a textbook example of how collective identity and shared values cut across the physical boundaries set by the modern nation state and how communities and nation state negotiate each other. Ethnicity as a primordial identity has the potential to disengage with political identity created by territorial states. However, the end result depends on the negotiating capacity of the state with different stakeholders involved in the issue

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