In Solidarity – by openDemocracy
In Solidarity - by openDemocracy
Podcast Description
In Solidarity is an openDemocracy podcast about people, power and politics, co-hosted by our editors based in London, Abuja and Montevideo and featuring guests from the around the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The podcast tackles critical contemporary issues such as the far-right's anti-women agenda, Trumpism as a religious movement, and the complexity of Syria's geopolitical and cultural landscape, supported by insights from experts and authors through various episode themes.
In Solidarity is an openDemocracy podcast about people, power and politics, co-hosted by our editors based in London, Abuja and Montevideo and featuring guests from the around the world.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The world is rightly horrified by how US President Trump is deporting people, including minors, without due process. Something similar is underway in India, but worse and under the radar. Even since the border skirmishes between India and Pakistan this year, Indian authorities have been rounding up Muslim citizens and deporting them on the spurious grounds that they either Pakistani or Bangladeshi infiltrators.
Abhishek Saha is an Indian journalist and author of No Land’s People. He joins us on the show to discuss the devastating impact of India’s forced deportations.
Read No Land’s People: https://harpercollins.co.in/product/no-lands-people/
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Credits:
Presented by Aman Sethi
Edited and produced by James Battershill, Ayodeji Rotinwa & Carla Abreu
Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:44 What’s happening in India?
05:02 Why Bangladesh?
07:05 The global pushback against migration
12:39 Punishing inherited people
14:42 Who determines what people are ‘undesirable’
17:50 Identifying outsiders
21:48 Abusing bureaucracy
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