Instagram #7

What does it take for a mother to decide that leaving her child with a relative, so she can make the perilous journey to the global north in order to better the chances of her child having a brighter future, is a better choice than taking her chances back home? What does it mean when an undocumented migrant parent living in The Netherlands, chooses to stay rather than go back and reunite with her family (a one way plane ticket bought and payed for by the Dutch government), while knowing there’s little to no hope of ever obtaining a legal status, living with the constant fear of being arrested and detained whenever she leaves the apartment (where she lives with 5 other undocumented migrants) to hopefully earn enough money with cleaning houses or sowing clothes, so she can send some money back home? These are questions everyone with a strong opinion about migration should try and answer for themselves. Preferably before having that strong opinion in the first place. @basniemans #photosarebullets

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