• ISBN13: 9789381043004
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Communication, Mass Media and Journalism
• Publisher: Frontpage Pub.
• Publisher Imprint: Frontpage
• Publication Date: June 4, 2010
• Pages: 242
• Original Price: INR 450.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 500 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Minority Studies

Counter-Gaze Media, Migrants, Minorities assesses the situation of migrant minorities not just in Third World colonised countries in South Asia but also in the Western societies in Europe which hitherto had not been subjected to any meaningful analysis. Under the Eurasia-Net programme, scholars, minority and human rights activists, researchers, and journalists from South Asia visited European countries while their counterparts from Europe came to South Asia to evaluate the conditions of the minorities in each of these regions accessing language rights, political participation, representation in public media and institutions, and arrangements for protection of their rights under a majority-centric domination. The result is the present study that throws up some critical questions on how migrants have come to form minority communities, how their claims to citizenship, rights and justice have occupied space in the politics of the nation and supra-national bodies. The collection of essays here highlight how the protection arrangements always fall short of their goal, where protection becomes one more tool in the hands of the government to sustain the majority-minority divide and how it refuses to accept the claims of minorities to equality and people-hood. A successful minority is one where the minority group withers away and the protection regime in turn becomes redundant. This research programme examined the European experience of minority issues as well as the South Asian laws and practices. There is an increasing familiarity between the two sets of experiences and so the book is not so much about counter gaze but about the anticipated and resultant familiarity in human rights struggles. About The Author: Subir Bhaumik is the BBC's Eastern India Correspondent based at Kolkata, India. He has worked for Time and Reuters, and prior to that for the Press Tru