Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how best to live there. That feeling of both citizenship and exile, of always being an expatriate - with all the attendant problems and complications and delight.
Migration is the story of my life: my parents and grandparents journeyed across four continents to flee war and find jobs, eventually finding their way to the U.S.
On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.
Emigration is always a difficulty.
History is another country and might be full of fascinating incidents and places to go visit - but as a destination for emigration, it has some problems!
How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.
I'm always intrigued when you are travelling through a place and there is somebody who has lived there and done the same job for years.
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.
You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think it's sort of inadvertently what made me come out or at least begin doing things within the community and thinking more about that, was that I get to travel quite a bit.
Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.