The venue of the open forum on ‘Immigration: Expectations and Challenges’ organised as part of the third edition of the Loka Kerala Sabha on Friday presented the two faces of the lives of expatriates.
NRI businessman M.A. Yousuf Ali, who inaugurated the session, said the country would prosper through immigration, but at the same time, Keralites who reach all corners of the world would be the first to suffer whenever there was a global crisis – be it the COVID-19 pandemic or the Ukraine war. For instance, expats from Kerala bore the maximum brunt when Saudi Arabia strictly enforced the Nitaqat (naturalisation) law, he said.
