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Home News & Reports [Stories of Origin] Returnees Dreams. Some Interrupted.

[Stories of Origin] Returnees Dreams. Some Interrupted.Share Find us on Twitter Find us on Facebook Find us on ... Share this via emailStories of Origin is a new MR series of articles and interviews that explores the lived experiences ofboth returning and potential migrants and their families. In the second part of this series, weexplore the nature of repatriation, and the lives of the survivors.Apr 21 2015

Vani SaraswathiThe writer is a Qatar-based journalist and Strategic Adviser to Migrant-Rights.org.We traverse narrow culverts in steep slopes to reach homes in deeper reaches of the hills. Sounds ofrunning water and the smell of clean mountain air. Plump faced children in tattered clothes play under alarge tree that serves as a village square.We stop at Maneprasads home. He returned to Yampaphant seven months ago, after a six-year stint inSaudi Arabia.I worked in a cafeteria in Abha. They promised me food and accommodation but didnt give meanything. Just my salary.Maneprasad went to Saudi via India, a route taken by many to bypass the training and orientation requiredin formal migration. He is stoic about his Gulf experience. He makes a sweeping a gesture, to show whathe built in the six years. A modest little home.What do you do now? Do you run a business?Nothing. Just...Do you share your experience with others?I dont tell people anything. Dont ask them to go or not to go....my best friend there, 26 years old, came back from a long days duty and went to bed and never wokeup. I couldnt stay there after that.

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