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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"caste discrimination"”.
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Caste-based healthcare inequality in Dalit communities in Makwanpur, Nepal: A mixed-methods study
Introduction The caste system is a three-millennium-old social stratification system. Caste discrimination is common in Nepal despite being illegal since 1962. Dalits (known as untouchables) rank at the bottom of the caste hierarchy and often experience discrimination due to notions of …
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Examining Structural Stigma in American Policy Making: A Case Study of California Senate Bill 403
… diaspora, limited research has focused on the caste system in the diaspora. This study examined caste on a macro level in American policy making. Using a qualitative case study design, it explored how the policy making process of California Senate Bill 403, a bill intended to prohibit caste …
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Dispossession of Matrimonial Choice in Contemporary India: Examining the Link between Cross-region Marriages, Neoliberal Capitalism, and New Forms of Gender Subordination
… Indian marriage-scape. Transgressing rules of caste endogamy and marriage within one’s religion, the men, largely drawn from the lower classes of Meo Muslims and the dominant-peasant Hindu castes, travelled long distances across India to seek wives from lower castes, other ethnicities, and/or …
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Challenges to Implementing Community Based Ecotourism (CBET) as a Bottom up Development Approach in the Sinharaja Rain Forest (Sri Lanka)
… context such as gender inequality and caste discrimination, which substantially disempower certain people. The thesis concludes that CBET is an appropriate pathway for tourism development in Sri Lanka but recognition of the above problems is required and they need to be addressed, in …
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‘In the interests of justice’: cases of caste violence in the Supreme Court of India
The caste system hierarchically stratifies society into distinct groups, perpetuating systemic discrimination and violence that affects nearly a quarter of the world’s population. While the caste-based discrimination is prevalent across South Asia and among diaspora communities, it is most …
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Being dark and foreign: a study of race in New Delhi's African student population
… a qualitative study of the experience of social discrimination faced by a group of African students living and studying in New Delhi, India. The question of whether the cause of discrimination is that the students are 'foreigners', or that they are 'dark', or that they are 'dark foreigners', …