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...higher as most cases still go unreported. The Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA), established in 2004 to look after the welfare of an estimated 20 million Non-Resident Indians (NRIS), launched a scheme earlier this year to provide counseling and legal and financial aid for Indian wives abandoned abroad. Closer to home, it has published a booklet for women planning to marry émigrés, to help them verify the credentials of their prospective spouses and their families, take proper legal precautions and seek help if things go wrong. "More such cases are being reported since we started...
...Despite impressive economic growth over the past decade, some 450,000 Indians emigrate to other countries to find work every year, while thousands more go illegally. "For some, going abroad is about seeking better opportunities and social mobility," says Rainuka Dagar, senior research fellow at the Chandigarh-based Institute for Development and Communication, "But for many, it is about status. It is a symbol of pride to have a member of the family living and earning abroad." In many communities, "marriage to an NRI is considered a status symbol as it gets the entire family a chance to go abroad...
When I was young I was a self-professed “banana”—that is, yellow on the outside and unrepentantly white on the inside. Growing up 1.5-generation Asian American (born abroad, raised domestically) is a strange splice of cultural bravado and insecurity. Perhaps it is this realization of guilt that is driving me to write and to think a little more about the identity conflicts that plague recent American arrivals...
...Polish voters abroad are particularly aware of how Poland's image has suffered under Kaczynski's government. They are also anxious to see economic reforms that would make Poland as business friendly as their adopted countries, allowing them to return. In the previous election in 2005, the Civic Platform failed to appeal to voters beyond Warsaw's elite. This time, said sociologist Tomasz Zukowski, "The Platform won because it became the leader of anti-PIS camp...
...British Invasion: The major U.S. networks may look more like BBC America as content from abroad fills the void. The U.K. version of The Office, with Ricky Gervais, is an obvious substitute for Steve Carell's NBC version. And Footballers' Wives would do for ABC's Desperate Housewives in a pinch...