‘This is Squid Game’: Indian H-1B visa holder sues US employer for labor exploitation, wage theft

An Indian tech professional has sued his US employer, alleging coerced labor and wage theft linked to caste discrimination.
The Conversation

Does America have a caste system?

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Time

How Seattle Became the First American City to Ban Caste Discrimination

In the fall of 2015, a group of Dalit survivors and activists from India began marching across 16 cities in North America—including New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle—to “break the silence” on caste ...
CNN

Even in the US, South Asians say caste has proved hard to escape

Sam Cornelius knew that something was amiss when his job performance review unexpectedly took a huge hit one year. It was 2013, and Cornelius had been working as a software engineer in the US for an ...
The Conversation

Discrimination based on caste is pervasive in South Asian communities around the world – now Seattle has banned it

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