01052nam a22001337a 4500 533721 533721 260612b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Debnath, Avijit and Paul, Shanku 61227 When citizens move: Migration and the perils of electoral roll revisions Economic & Political Weekly 61(19), May 9, 2026: p.86-90 Bihar’s Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, which flagged nearly 60 lakh names for deletion, poses a serious threat to internal migrants. This article argues that the SIR is not merely an administrative clean-up but functions as an effective citizenship test—an “NRC by proxy”—that shifts the burden of proof onto voters and penalises mobility. By turning administrative absence into political exclusion, it risks disenfranchising migrant workers and calls for rethinking electoral citizenship to ensure inclusion.- Reproduced https://www.epw.in/journal/2026/19/discussion/when-citizens-move.html Economic & Political Weekly AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 408900 IIPA IIPA 2026-06-12 61(19), May 9, 2026: p.86-90 AR139193 2026-06-12 AR