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"The Unseen Game: Infrastructure, Labour and the City"
15.12.2022, Thursday, at 6.00 pm IST
In a news conference before the inauguration of the FIFA World Cup 2022, FIFA President Gianni Infantino accused Western media of bias and Western nations of hypocrisy, for their highlighting of inhuman treatment of migrant workers in Qatar and allegations of human rights violation, including the criminalisation of LGBTQ persons.
The Guardian reported that 6500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal have died in Qatar since the beginning of its World Cup preparations, in 2010. That is "an average of 12 migrant workers from these five south Asian nations have died each week". Segments of the South Asian economy depend heavily on remittances sent by migrant workers in the Middle East, however, the media in South Asia has failed to focus adequately on these deaths. Despite having never qualified to the FIFA World Cup, the South Asian nations participate enthusiastically in watching and discussing these matches, newspapers and prime-time television news carry information related to football in great detail. The death of the migrant workers who have been instrumental in creating the spectacle of the most expensive World Cup till date has not marred the sports coverage.
"The Unseen Game: Infrastructure, Labour and the City" is a roundtable discussion organised by the South Asia Network for Communication, Displacement and Migration (SAN-CDM), highlighting the precarious existence of migrant workers, their contribution to the making of infrastructure and logistics in the modern metropolis (or should we say necropolis), the condition of South Asian migrant workers in the Gulf countries, as well as the role and responsibilities of the media.
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https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85371746514?pwd=QnRSUEtsT3duajV3SU5PcnhITEdoUT09
Meeting ID: 853 7174 6514
Passcode: 275958
Dr Debojyoti Das
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