The Inheritance of Loss
About 200 million migrants from different countries are scattered across the globe, supporting a population back home that is as big if not bigger. Were these half-billion or so people to constitute a state — migration nation — it would rank as the world’s third-largest…About half the world’s migrants are women, many of whom care for children abroad while leaving their own children home. “Your loved ones across that ocean . . . ,” Nadine Sarreal, a Filipina poet in Singapore, warns:
Will sit at breakfast and try not to gaze
Where you would sit at the table.
Meals now divided by five
Instead of six, don’t feed an emptiness.
Migration Nation of 500 million - that sounds fantastic. Being a multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-religious State with women outnumbering men, one hopes, this State will be free from women-related crimes. As everybody has to care for somebody in another country, one can certainly find universal brotherhood.
Comment by Mahadevan — April 24, 2007 @ 11:03 am