Immigration. How do you think about immigration?
How I think about immigration may be quite different from how other immigrants would think about it and their experiences. However here is my reflection that I can't contain in myself any more - , and now I don't want to.
Immigration is, first of all, celebration, because all immigrants get that permanent resident status through a very very hard process mainly to prove that they satisfy all the qualifications and standards of education, wealth, skills, age - which gives an idea of their human power (labour) - and family/children. They bring their whole self, dreaming that they will find a 'culture' that will give them a nurture, but the real expectation is what they can bring to the 'economy' of the host country. So there's a gap; culture vs. economy
Second, and this is important to be noted:
Immigration is an expulsion
It is a big bang
people experience
they are expulsioned - expelled from their home country
It is a big bang
people experience
they are expulsioned - expelled from their home country
Neo-liberalism that snares and swallows and
oppresses all corners of the world
to make them put money and the economy and the transnational companies and capitals's self-increase and expansion on everything else
oppresses all corners of the world
to make them put money and the economy and the transnational companies and capitals's self-increase and expansion on everything else
The neo-liberalism
that drives ordinary people to the very end of the corner
so that they are left with only desperate few choices for survival
has made the roads, the paths, the paved roads people walk on
like a LAVA
that people can't really walk on
if not they risk their lives and safety for money,
for agendas for survival and competition
that drives ordinary people to the very end of the corner
so that they are left with only desperate few choices for survival
has made the roads, the paths, the paved roads people walk on
like a LAVA
that people can't really walk on
if not they risk their lives and safety for money,
for agendas for survival and competition
People don't breathe for the fresh air - the gift of the nature and life
they breathe just because they have to
they breathe just because they have to
They can't save their community, but they know that
they can save their three or four member household, at least, and that's all
they can save their three or four member household, at least, and that's all
So people choose to expulsion
they choose to be big banged
they choose to be big banged
After all, immigration is disaspora
phenomenally, tragic diaspora
after the expulsion
they've become a scattered seed
uprooted, scattered, and flown away
phenomenally, tragic diaspora
after the expulsion
they've become a scattered seed
uprooted, scattered, and flown away
they have no where to land, really,
so they gather to live as a ghetto among themselves
known to each other as the same ethnic
In the middle of the cold air
they live as a ghetto
so they gather to live as a ghetto among themselves
known to each other as the same ethnic
In the middle of the cold air
they live as a ghetto
They meet others - the host people, culture, system,
but most often those places are
at the markets or in the medical clinics
and they are greeted there
with welcome.
I have wondered why, for a long time,
maybe because money bridges them all, there?
but most often those places are
at the markets or in the medical clinics
and they are greeted there
with welcome.
I have wondered why, for a long time,
maybe because money bridges them all, there?
There are many hopes, the places for hope, we can find,
but we also need to be bold to say
what is perceived as it is
we don't shed lights only on success
we hear the stories of struggles, too.
but we also need to be bold to say
what is perceived as it is
we don't shed lights only on success
we hear the stories of struggles, too.
I originally posted this to my Facebook page on October 20: https://www.facebook.com/hana.park.357284
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