--- Gabe Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 13/07/05, cornel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mario, > > > > I have not followed the 'economic migrant' debate > closely for lack of time. However, I think that > Gabe has a point that, following the political > change in East Africa when Independence became a > reality in the early 1960s, most Goans from there > moved out. Some were forced out abruptly, as in > Uganda and the former Nyasaland and even Zanzibar > because of political turmoil. Such people, suddenly > found themselves with limited choice and many were > accepted, particularly in the UK, Canada and > elsewhere as refugees. > > Comment: We have no records in my family, except > that I know my father was born in Bombay and had > travelled to Kenya as an economic Migrant. > His own parents or grand parents must have travelled > from Goa to Bombay also as economic migrants. > Mario replies: I have nothing but respect for these intrepid Goans who did what they had to for the benefit of their families at a time in history when it must have been a daunting experience, and then doing it again when the Africans asserted themselves..
