Guest workers in Dubai hold pictures of damily members back home.
Guest workers in Dubai hold pictures of damily members back home.
Far From Home
In today’s hyperconnected world, many developing countries find that their most lucrative export is people. The foreign workers and their families must grapple with an inevitable trade-off: emotional loss for material gain.
This story appears in the January 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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