My own modern day migration story
I'm back in Canada temporarily and I'm reminded, especially after nearly a year living in the Chinese countryside, how good we have it here, and how many migrants risk life and limb for a chance at what we sometimes take for granted.
Qingtian
Qingtian 青田 is mountainous county in Zhejiang 浙江 Province, 300 miles south of Shanghai. For more than 200 years, its people have sought to escape a life of wretched poverty. So they went out. Today, more than 200,000 people – amounting to half of Qingtian's current population – live in more than 120 countries around...
NYT: Rural China’s Hunger for Sons Fuels Traffic in Abducted Boys
An article in today’s New York Times brought me to tears this afternoon. The story tells the plight of parents in the south of China whose children have been abducted and sold to other families in want of sons. The children don’t travel far. From the city, many are brought to the rural areas, where...
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