Migration
In a series about global migration, the NYT looks at the Kerala story.
Men seeking wives place newspaper ads, describing themselves as “handsome, teetotaler, foreign-employed” or “God-fearing and working in Dubai.”
Elsewhere, a woman who went to the Middle East to work as a housemaid and labourer so that her husband could repay his debts. When she returned after two years, she found that he had squandered the money and was planning to marry another woman… The story ends in violent tragedy.
