International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Research

Authors
Dr. Anil Srivastava, Rohit Kumar

Abstract
The Rohingya are an ethnic group, the majority of whom are Muslim. To escape persecution in Myanmar, hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas have been fleeing to other countries for refuge. The largest migration of this community took place in 2016 and 2017 when more than 723000 Rohingya to seek refuge in neighbouring countries including India. This paper presents a brief background of the ethnic conflict in Rakhine State in Myanmar, India’s constitutional provisions related to non-residents including refugees and international law obligations for India in handling of immigrants and refugees. This paper analyses the security threats to India induced by Rohingyas living in India. This paper is a descriptive study uses qualitative research method. It uses facts and information which are already available in open source to draw the result of the study.