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Amid the unfolding of fresh ethnic violence in Assam, migrants from the State living in Lucknow are anxious about the safety of their relatives back home. Their only source of accurate information is the television. The violence in Assam, though alarming, is remote. Abject poverty and the terror of floods caused by the Brahmaputra has, over the years, forced thousands of Assamese to migrate to other parts of the country. Around 40,000 Assamese migrants live in the U.P. capital. The Assamese started arriving in Lucknow three decades ago. Their migration peaked as the Bodoland movement caught fire, says Roli Misra, an academic with extensive field experience on the migrants’ issues. In Lucknow, most of the migrants live in squalor. The majority of these migrants pick waste for a living. But their deepest hurt comes when they are tagged as “Bangladeshis” despite carrying valid identity cards.
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ethnic conflict, Bodoland, Assam, Lucknow, migration, poverty, violence, Uttar Pradesh,displacement, rag-picker
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