Immigrants as Guests? Not Really…
Since when do people ask their guests to pay taxes, to pay for the accommodation, and to find and keep a job? And since when have guests stopped being almost sacred?
Evidently, immigrants the world over experience something completely different from being “guests”. And so they are not.
What about the concept of the “paying guest”?
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The Plumber's Mate
2009/May/08 at 12:47:20