Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Migrant labour
www.learnatroots.orgEvery panacea opens a Pandora's box.
Urban migration is the option for many rural families that look to gain a toehold on the ladder of affluence. Drawn out of their context, migrants struggle on the margins of cities as they join the disadvantaged in urban slums and learn to view life butt-end up.
we live on, unconscious of 'them' and 'their' existence, choosing to be unaware that the last- woman -standing sees value eroded below levels of subsistence and survival even as she steps away to avoid the faster, fancier cars that speed past her.
uprooted, alone, she endures the vagaries of life on the street, vulnerable beyond the worst nightmare.
bigotry,exclusion are amplified experiences when lived within the kaleidoscope of deprivation and poverty.
Personal tragedy is just one face to this story.
Roll the dice to learn how fast our artisanal wisdom is depleted as men and women wise in their ways in their villages, are now morphed into unskilled labour for us to exploit...
Urban migration is the option for many rural families that look to gain a toehold on the ladder of affluence. Drawn out of their context, migrants struggle on the margins of cities as they join the disadvantaged in urban slums and learn to view life butt-end up.
we live on, unconscious of 'them' and 'their' existence, choosing to be unaware that the last- woman -standing sees value eroded below levels of subsistence and survival even as she steps away to avoid the faster, fancier cars that speed past her.
uprooted, alone, she endures the vagaries of life on the street, vulnerable beyond the worst nightmare.
bigotry,exclusion are amplified experiences when lived within the kaleidoscope of deprivation and poverty.
Personal tragedy is just one face to this story.
Roll the dice to learn how fast our artisanal wisdom is depleted as men and women wise in their ways in their villages, are now morphed into unskilled labour for us to exploit...
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