{"id":30736,"date":"2021-04-09T10:29:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T01:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/09\/new-zealand-suspension-of-travel-from-india-questioned-amid-fears-of-racist-backlash"},"modified":"2021-04-09T10:29:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T01:29:05","slug":"new-zealand-suspension-of-travel-from-india-questioned-amid-fears-of-racist-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30736","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand suspension of travel from India questioned amid fears of racist backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Community leader says: \u2018We don\u2019t feel like a part of the \u201cteam of 5 million\u201d when Indians are singled out like this\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Community leaders have questioned the New Zealand government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/08\/new-zealand-suspends-travel-from-india-after-jump-in-covid-19-cases\">decision to temporarily close the border to people travelling from India<\/a>, and say they fear the move could prompt racism and stigma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question of \u2018Why India?\u2019 must be asked, and a clear answer should be given,\u201d said Sunil Kaushal, president of the Waitakere Indian Association. He asked why the ruling applied only to India, when other nations including the United States, Brazil, France and the UK had also experienced soaring infection rates, especially when compared per-capita.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/09\/new-zealand-suspension-of-travel-from-india-questioned-amid-fears-of-racist-backlash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community leader says: \u2018We don\u2019t feel like a part of the \u201cteam of 5 million\u201d when Indians are singled out like this\u2019See all our coronavirus coverageCommunity leaders have questioned the New Zealand government\u2019s decision to temporarily close the border &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,62,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-india","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30737,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30736\/revisions\/30737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}