Book Review: Faces of Discrimination in Higher Education in India: Quota Policy, Social Justice and the Dalits (Routledge Research in Educational Equality and Diversity)

Ovichegan, Samson K.; Rainford, Jon

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“…The experiences of Dalit students in Indian higher education have been reported in several studies by Patwardhan and Palshikar (1992), Neelakandan and Patil (2012), Rao (2013), Singh (2013), Ovichegan (2015) and in officially appointed committee reports. Some important reports such as Anveshi Law Committee report (2002) in HCU, Thorat Committee Report (Lessons Unlearned: Nine Years After the Thorat Committee Report, 2016, January 25) and the Mungekar Committee report (Gatade, 2012) in Vardhman Mahavir Medical College (VMMC) have concluded that caste-based discrimination has been institutionalized 3 3 Swartz (2008) theorised Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of ‘Habitus’ (habits) and stated that habitus are predominantly unconscious cultural process.…”

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“…Despite the modern and secular outlook of Indian culture, feudal caste relations and caste identities dominate the consciousness of the Indian society; hence, caste is seamlessly merged within the institutions of the country (Teltumbde, 2001). Studies have reported that caste-based discrimination is pervasive across higher education institutions and it is clearly evident in elite institutions (Ovichegan, 2015; Rao, 2013; Singh, 2013). The current meritocratic 16 16 Meritocratic values have taken a dominant position in higher education and become a major political ideology which derives its strength from higher education.…”

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Caste Conflicts on Campuses: Examining Diversity Research to Transform Indian Universities into Inclusive Learning Spaces

Rathod

2019

Journal of Social Inclusion Studies

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The presence of a significant and growing population of lower caste students on college campuses has been perceived as a challenge to the historical hegemony of higher castes. Therefore, in the last decade alone, numerous incidents of caste-based discrimination and suicides of Dalit students have been reported on the campuses across the country. However, there is scarcely any research on the changed demographic in higher education and its implications on students and the campus climate. The student diversity without institutional policy to benefiting from the diversity, higher education institutions are facing social justice, discrimination and diversity issues. The article explores diversity research from the United States (US) higher education contexts to develop a theoretical understanding and discusses the significance of campus climate frameworks to assess students’ perceptions and experiences about their campuses. The campus climate scholarship suggests that institutional commitment to diversity fosters learning outcomes of all students and facilitates critical institutional support to marginalized students. Further, a systematic understanding of the campus climate that can lead to an institutional policy reform to foster a more inclusive and democratic ethos in Indian universities.

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Caste Conflicts on Campuses: Examining Diversity Research to Transform Indian Universities into Inclusive Learning Spaces

Rathod

2019

Journal of Social Inclusion Studies

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“…Previous scholars have discussed how the work of workers with disabilities is often imbued with too much "emotional management" and notions of generosity (Everaere 2010), which is dismissive and potentially harmful. Others have discussed how quotas lead to casting unsubstantiated doubts about beneficiaries' merits (Santos, Amâncio, and Alves 2013;Ovichegan 2015). This article has shown where some of these biases have emerged in the new recruitment rules designed after the quota because recruiters are approaching job applicants on a more personal level and framing their actions as both assessing and mentoring.…”

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“…These findings are context specific, but they provide new theoretical insights to explain the paradox of how companies' diversity efforts have led to the recreation of workplace stratifications and overselectivity among minorities (Fishkin 2014;Sarfati 2014;Berrey 2015). This sheds light on the double penalty endured by minorities who are hired through these pipelines because of the invisibility of their disabilities; even if their recruitment was based on stricter criteria, employers still hint that their hiring was a "generosity" effort and that they might not be as "deserving" as other nonminority candidates (Everaere 2010;Santos, Amâncio, and Alves 2013;Ovichegan 2015).…”

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Tell Me Your Story: How Recruitment Practices Implementing Affirmative Action Laws May Undermine the Laws’ Goals

Buchter¹

2020

Law Soc. Inq.

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Scholars pointed out that antidiscrimination laws do not fully undermine workplace discrimination and that affirmative action policies mostly benefit overqualified or advantaged individuals within minorities. To elucidate this paradox, this case study analyzes how some companies adopted specific selection and assessment processes for job seekers after the reinforcement of a quota for workers with disabilities in France. I observed the creation of alternative recruitment channels, the hiring of disability experts for recruitment, the refusal of resume sorting as a prescreening tool, and an emphasis on face-to-face interviews. While these changes circumvented practices that could have excluded people with disabilities (resume screening as a preselection tool, inaccessible venues for recruitment), they changed these practices only in limited spaces within the organizations. Additionally, while they did help more people get hired, they also compelled more personal disclosure that led to a more emotional assessment of job seekers and enabled “refined statistical discrimination” within pools of job seekers with disabilities. This research therefore reveals recruitment practices that may increase the number of individuals with disabilities hired but that, at the same time, may facilitate overselectivity and trigger significant risks associated with emotional recruitment of individuals with disabilities.

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“…This challenge stems not only from the difficulties in creating and applying efficient education policy and teaching methods, but also in accommodating these new groups as equal participants in universities' and nation's public life. In other contexts, for youth entering and studying in a university is an exciting journey, but for Dalits and other lower caste members the university years sometimes turn into a bitter experience, in not so infrequent cases leading to suicides (Ovichegan, 2015;Sukumar 2016).…”

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Dalit Counterpublic and Social Space on Indian Campuses

Garalytė

2020

J-CASTE

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This article discusses three different university campuses in India and their political and social environments with a particular focus on Dalit student activism from March to June, 2013 and from January to March, 2014 when this ethnographic research was conducted. It questions what place the Dalit student activism, constituting the “counter public” (Fraser, 1990), occupied on the university campuses; how Dalit student activists interacted with other political groups on the campuses; what characteristic features the Dalit student activism had at the New Delhi and Hyderabad universities. This article discusses the changing power relations on Indian campuses and the role of “social space” (Bourdieu 2018, 1989) in negotiating social statuses. Dalit student activists actively engaged in appropriating social space by installing Dalit symbolic icons on the university campuses, bringing up caste issues to public attention and thus temporarily turning certain campuses into the “political strongholds” (Jaoul, 2012) of the Dalit movement. Contributing to the field of “the spatiality of contentious politics” (Leitner, Sheppard and Sziarto 2008) this article argues for the interactive relation between space and politics, showing how Dalit students changed the campus space through symbolic appropriation and, conversely, how historically constituted campus spaces affected the nature of Dalit student activism in each of the discussed locations.

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Book Review: Faces of Discrimination in Higher Education in India: Quota Policy, Social Justice and the Dalits (Routledge Research in Educational Equality and Diversity)

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Caste Conflicts on Campuses: Examining Diversity Research to Transform Indian Universities into Inclusive Learning Spaces

Caste Conflicts on Campuses: Examining Diversity Research to Transform Indian Universities into Inclusive Learning Spaces

Tell Me Your Story: How Recruitment Practices Implementing Affirmative Action Laws May Undermine the Laws’ Goals

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