{"id":52703,"date":"2023-02-18T04:00:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T19:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/feb\/18\/a-disease-caste-discrimination-in-australia-is-on-the-rise-but-some-are-fighting-back"},"modified":"2023-02-18T04:00:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T19:00:18","slug":"a-disease-caste-discrimination-in-australia-is-on-the-rise-but-some-are-fighting-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52703","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A disease\u2019: Caste discrimination in Australia is on the rise \u2013 but some are fighting back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As migration from south Asia booms, Australia\u2019s human rights commission is looking at stronger measures against caste-based discrimination<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>When Rakesh Kumar migrated to Australia from Punjab in India 16 years ago, the discrimination followed him. Before he could even enter the house he would be staying in he was asked: \u201cWhat is your caste?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said I\u2019m Chamar,\u201d Kumar says. The term is a Punjabi equivalent of the Dalit caste.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/feb\/18\/a-disease-caste-discrimination-in-australia-is-on-the-rise-but-some-are-fighting-back\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As migration from south Asia booms, Australia\u2019s human rights commission is looking at stronger measures against caste-based discriminationWhen Rakesh Kumar migrated to Australia from Punjab in India 16 years ago, the discrimination followed him. Before&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3582,"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":[43,388,62,491,362,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-india","category-migration","category-race","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52703","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\/3582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52704,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52703\/revisions\/52704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}