In one of his speeches, Bill Clinton said: ""The opposition to globalization in the world is rooted in the feeling of some people that they are left out, left behind..."
Since he mentioned this as a "feeling" of "some" people, I began making a list:
aboriginal tribe...
casual labours...
children of sex workers...
children in war-zones...
citizens of countless "Harsuds"...
communities living on mineral-rich land…
cocoa farmers of Ghana…
construction labours of shopping malls and international airports...
dalits...
development-induced-displaced (DIDs)...
disabled and differently challenged...
distress migrants...
ethnic Tibetans in Tibet...
female foetuses, the girl child, women...
fishermen and fishing villages of Mumbai... (I guess, of elsewhere too)
habitats near the oil resources...
household domestic help living in slums outside Gurgaon's gated cities
"illigal" Bangladeshi labour in India...
indigenous communities...
Indonesia’s migrant “unskilled” domestic help women...
immigrant manual labour in Dubai...
landless bargadars of Singur...
manual scavangers...
marginal fishermen...
mentally challenged...
mill workers of Mumbai...
old abandoned parents...
out-sourced “slave” labour at the end of global supply chains...
nomadic tribes...
Palestine...
pavement dwellers...
people of Kashmir...
people of Manipur...
platform kids...
project-affected-people of the large dams...
rag-pickers...
rickshaw pullers...
right-sized workers...
sexual minorities...
sharecroppers...
single mothers... .
slum children...
small islanders...
subsistence farmers in India...
those on the other side of digital divide...
tribals of Chhatisgarh... and of Jharkhand, Orissa...
urban poor...
vanishing tribes of Burma/Myanmar...
Zapatisatas...
No, it is not complete, so help me to complete it...
Post-script: Thanks for adding to the list. I have included them in italics
9 comments:
- ancient tribes (aboriginal tribes)
- labour
- 'illegal' Bangladeshi labour in India
Thanks!
I have started including the "left behinds" to the list...
Slightly off topic. The story of a mathematician who cared about some of the above and gave up his career:
http://www.ams.org/notices/200808/tx080800930p.pdf
tribals of chattisgarh
mill workers of mumbai
fisher folk and fishing villages of mumbai
thanks!... have added these to the list...
landless bargadars of Singur
female foetuses, the girl child, women
sexual minorities
people of Kahmir
people of Manipur
Thanks, Hingshuti
added these too
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