- Title
- Go back to your country!” Excluding Indians in Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand
- Creator
- Leckie, Jacqueline
- Relation
- Narratives of Migrant and Refugee Discrimination in Aotearoa New Zealand p. 28-49
- Relation
- Studies in Migration and Diaspora
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003275077-3
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- At 8 p.m. on 8 August 2019, a train passenger from Wellington to Lower Hutt did something quite unremarkable – he spoke on his mobile phone. Except in this case, he was speaking in Hindi. His action incensed a young female passenger to shout at him ‘go back to your country, don’t speak that language here’.1 Many people of Indian descent in Aotearoa New Zealand are accustomed to this offensive and exclusionary phrase that is frequently thrown towards those who look or sound different to a perceived or constructed ‘Kiwi’ nationality. The insult ‘go back to your country’ is a common refrain locally and globally that many minority-group migrants and their descendants hear.2 As I have argued elsewhere, discrimination against Indians in Aotearoa, as well as their broader history there, has been relatively silenced.3 Even though Indians in Aotearoa have often been subsumed under the broad umbrella term of Asian,4 this chapter explores them as a distinct group encompassing people with heritage from the present state of India (New Zealand and overseas born, as well as from some of the branches of the Indian dias-pora)5 to examine narratives of exclusion, violence, casual racism and stereotypes.
- Subject
- Indian descent; Kiwi; migrants; discrimination
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1491379
- Identifier
- uon:53059
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781003275077
- Language
- eng
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