Abstract
This paper is an exploratory study on the Bangladeshi immigrants who have crossed the border between India and Bangladesh during two historical points of time. The central focus of the paper is to understand the process of identity constitution and reconstitution among these immigrants over different generations. It’s based on the focused ethnographic study of the community with tools of FGD and interview-schedule. The paper attempts to grasp different aspects of the identity construction of the community. It tries to capture the “trilemma” of negotiating identities of the Bangladeshi immigrants in Odisha, an eastern province of India. This trilemma unfolds with different levels of negotiations pertaining to their status of Refugees questioning their conception of nation and citizenship, fitting into a distinguished host identity and connecting with their Bengali community. The study tries to put a direction of these multiple negotiations into the arena of the Diasporic-cultural community by contesting the term refugee.
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