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Immigration Policy Reform: An Overview of Afghan Refugees in India
Mohammad Toufeeq Shalizi, Dr. Rajesh Kumar

Abstract
Thousands of Afghan nationals including Sikh, Hindu and Muslim communities have been accommodated as a refugee and asylum seekers in India since 1980. Lack of a legal framework and relaxed migratory policies in India for the naturalization of refugees, fetched them to face socio- economic challenges. India is not a member of the signatory to the 1951 convention for neither the status of refugees nor 1967 protocols, but to protect the humanity, adopted the human right declaration for the protection of individuals who feel persecution back in their origin countries and permitted the migrants to stay. Latently, the government of India made an amendment on the citizenship act 1955 that empowered the government of India to grants Indian citizenship to the religious minorities belonging to Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan that entered India before 31 December, 2014 using legal documents and residing in India as an immigrants, the policy exclude Muslim afghan refugees residing in India.

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