India, Aug. 9 -- Around the world, migration is being weaponised again and again. India is particularly vulnerable.

There is one critical thing that India, and the Indian public square, does not think enough about-and it should. The videos from Ceuta, the Spanish territory in northern Africa, is a stark reminder on this issue. I am talking about weaponised migration. To understand the gravity of this threat, one must first anchor it in scholastic theory. The "weaponisation of migration" is most authoritatively defined and analysed by political scientist Kelly M. Greenhill in her seminal work, "Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy". Greenhill defines the phenomenon as Coercive Engineered Migration (...