"Recent Histories" of a Porous Border: Mobility Across the Indo-Bangladesh Borderland

The narrative of the “outsider” that has expanded over the years in scope was my first entry point in this research: Who were these allegedly provocative outsiders? How did they transgress the increasingly militarised Bengal border? How did guarded unfenced borders in North 24 Parganas eventually develop into the question of entry and conflict in this region? Taking the case study of Dukhali, this report tries to answer some of the complex questions as to how the “recent histories” of the mobility narrative that had developed in the village since 2014; and how these mutations of movements have led to the emergence of unique routines and processes of mobility that remain unseen in the longue durée of movement (like entry and exit) across Dukhali.