Monday, April 2, 2007

"Citizens of Nowhere"

By Seth Mydans: "They also include tens of thousands of Filipino and Indonesian children in the Malaysian state of Sabah, victims of discriminatory laws that, in effect, deny them birth certificates and often separate them from their families.

Repression at home and the demand for cheap labor drew hundreds of thousands of Filipinos and Indonesians to Sabah (Malaysia) over the past three decades. There are now 750,000 of them, nearly one-third of the local population, and the authorities are forcing many to leave..." (International Herald Tribune) ...full story here

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