Assam: My Country, My Home

 With 1.9 million people in India’s Assam state at risk of becoming stateless, we investigate their fight to prove they belong.

In India’s Assam state, 1.9 million people are facing a battle to prove they belong.

They are suspected to be foreigners after the state created a National Register of Citizens, demanding that anyone not on the list prove their citizenship.

Voices From Assam: India's Four Million Unwanted

Al Jazeera travels to Assam to speak to those facing an uncertain future and challenge the NRC on its citizenship list.

In the state of Assam, a sliver of India squeezed between Bangladesh and Bhutan, four million people are at risk of becoming stateless.

The local government has put together a draft list of those it considers to be "legitimate” citizens and four million of Assam's 32.9 million people didn’t make the cut.

The National Register of Citizens (NRC) lists those who can prove that they or their parents were in India before March 1971, when Bangladesh became independent from Pakistan.