Word: migrant
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...years was too expensive and snooty. So Nicola's joining Julia at a school that will give her a good education, but, if we're not careful, a narrow view of the world. The students are whiter and more English than at the local state schools, which draw many migrant kids, and at Julia's first school - populated as it is by the children of the international élite. In choosing affordable academic excellence, we've had to sacrifice diversity...
...GistThere are 60 million of them, and they make everything from the sneakers on our feet to the mobile phones we carry. But to most of the world, China's legions of migrant factory workers are faceless, the interchangeable gears whose revolutions drive the global economy. Chang, a journalist at the Wall Street Journal, spent two years reporting in the gritty southern boomtown of Dongguuan trying to put human faces on these workers, and the ones she finds are extraordinary: overwhelmingly female, jarringly young and driven as much by the desire to see the world beyond their village...
...while the morbid pull of China's brutal twentieth century history is ever present, it's the portraits of the migrant workers and their lives - at once exciting and mind-numbingly boring, crowded and starkly isolated - that are at the book's heart. The painstaking work Chang put into befriending these girls and drawing out their stories is evident, as is the genuine affection she has for them and their spirit...
...Second World War. Their latest coalition government lasted just 18 months and was widely considered a catastrophe for failing to produce a single major legislative initiative. The result also underscores growing unhappiness with an expanded European Union in a Central European country that has always felt vulnerable to migrant flows from the east. Immigration is controversial across Europe, but Austria's far right has been particularly skillful at focusing public anger on its alleged risks...
...major label (Ruff Ryders). His debut album, The Rest is History, featured big names like Kanye West and Wyclef Jean, and included the taunting single Learn Chinese ("When the pumps go off/ y'all gon' speak Chinese") plus serious tracks that delved into the Tiananmen killings and migrant life ("Think we open restaurants 'cause we cook good...