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Dilemma of desperate deportees

When you leave a country, you leave much behind. The illegal immigrants returning from the US are mostly landed middle class: each would have spent up to `50 lakh to middlemen for taking the ‘dunki’ route and settling abroad. The donkey route is how the aspirants fly to visa-free countries such as Ecuador or Serbia, followed by overland journeys across multiple borders, including crossings through deserts, jungles or sea routes. Which also explains why so many refugees from Bangladesh are in India—numbering around 20 million, as Kiren Rijiju told parliament as the then minister of state for home affairs. One must suppose a refugee is one who takes his ‘unwantedness elsewhere’, as the late Vijay Nambisan said in his poem ‘Madras Central’.

New Indian Express
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