Invisible Baggage: How Caste and Class Travel Across Borders

A deep exploration into how migration does not erase social hierarchies. Through stories, sociology, and lived experiences of the South Asian diaspora in Australia, this episode examines how caste, class, race, and identity continue shaping lives long after people cross borders. It also explores examples of how inherited caste consciousness within some Northern Indian and Sri Lankan diaspora communities can create exclusion and unequal treatment toward people viewed as lower in social status. From hidden discrimination to questions of belonging and assimilation, the episode reveals the invisible structures people carry with them.This episode discusses research and literary examples about parts of the South Asian diaspora. These experiences do not represent all Indian communities