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This paper focuses on the diversity and precarity in legal status among Tibetans in exile in India, human rights implications and impacts on drivers of TB particularly access to housing, health care, nutrition, and employment. The absence of a refugee framework in India, notwithstanding a broadly receptive stance toward the Tibetan people and the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, intersects with and compounds these barriers. 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