The language of human migration
Word power 36 by Mitchell & Richardson
- asylum-seeker
- person who, having escaped a madhouse, is put into one
- Brain Drain
- popular game show in Eastern Europe where winners, invariably skilled, get to live in the West
- customs
- quaint national tradition of not letting anyone in
- emPLOY
- to promise work to young female migrants before forcing them to become sex workers
- NoMad
- acting with sanity, moving from poverty to opportunity
- traffic jam
- smuggling 25 people in a 6-person van
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