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http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/30/world/asia/20070902MIGRATE_index.html - Sign In to E-Mail or Save This<http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/30/world/asia/20070902MIGRATE_index.html> - Share<http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/30/world/asia/20070902MIGRATE_index.html#> - Digg <javascript:articleShare('digg');> - Facebook <javascript:articleShare('facebook');> - Newsvine <javascript:articleShare('newsvine');> - Permalink <javascript:articleShare('permalink');> The Indian state of Kerala, a verdant swath of south Indian coastline, is a famously good place to be poor. Keralites live nearly as long as Americans do, and read at nearly the same rate, on a sliver of the income. With leftist governments in the state capital investing heavily in health care and education, a generation of scholars have celebrated the "Kerala model" as an alternative to market-driven development, a vision of social equality in an unequal capitalist world. Photo: Tyler Hicks/The New York Times - Sign In to E-Mail or Save This<http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/30/world/asia/20070902MIGRATE_index.html> - Share<http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/30/world/asia/20070902MIGRATE_2.html#> - Digg <javascript:articleShare('digg');> - Facebook <javascript:articleShare('facebook');> - Newsvine <javascript:articleShare('newsvine');> - Permalink <javascript:articleShare('permalink');> Now, the Kerala model is under threat, since nearly two million Keralites currently work abroad, often heading to the Persian Gulf to work for $1 an hour at jobs that may keep them apart from their families for years. These experiences have forced some scholars to rewrite the story of Kerala's triumphant escape from capitalism into a story that underlines their painful dependence on it. Photo: Tyler Hicks/The New York Times - Sign In to E-Mail or Save This<http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/30/world/asia/20070902MIGRATE_index.html> - Share<http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/30/world/asia/20070902MIGRATE_3.html#> - Digg <javascript:articleShare('digg');> - Facebook <javascript:articleShare('facebook');> - Newsvine <javascript:articleShare('newsvine');> - Permalink <javascript:articleShare('permalink');> "Remittances from global capitalism are carrying the whole Kerala economy," said S. Irundaya Rajan, a local demographer. "There would have been starvation deaths in Kerala if there had been no migration. The Kerala model is good to read about but not practically applicable to any part of the world, including Kerala." Photo: Tyler Hicks/The New York Times - Sign In to E-Mail or Save This<http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/30/world/asia/20070902MIGRATE_index.html> - Share<http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/30/world/asia/20070902MIGRATE_4.html#> - Digg <javascript:articleShare('digg');> - Facebook <javascript:articleShare('facebook');> - Newsvine <javascript:articleShare('newsvine');> - Permalink <javascript:articleShare('permalink');> Laly Mohan's life offers a kind of case study that is familiar in Kerala today. Her husband, Ramakrishnan, rose from poverty to finish two years of college, but saw few job prospects and left for the Gulf 15 years ago. As a driver in Qatar, he now earns $375 a month, but sees his wife and two daughters -- Blessy, 10, and Elsa, 6 -- just once a year, on a three-week visit. Photo: Tyler Hicks/The New York Times - Sign In to E-Mail or Save This<http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/30/world/asia/20070902MIGRATE_index.html> - Share<http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/30/world/asia/20070902MIGRATE_5.html#> - Digg <javascript:articleShare('digg');> - Facebook <javascript:articleShare('facebook');> - Newsvine <javascript:articleShare('newsvine');> - Permalink <javascript:articleShare('permalink');> Mr. Mohan's earnings have brought his family the accoutrements of middle-class life including a renovated kitchen and a new motorcycle. But despite her husband's daily phone calls, "I feel very alone," Ms. Mohan said. Photo: Tyler Hicks/The New York Times - Sign In to E-Mail or Save This<http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/30/world/asia/20070902MIGRATE_index.html> - Share<http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/30/world/asia/20070902MIGRATE_6.html#> - Digg <javascript:articleShare('digg');> - Facebook <javascript:articleShare('facebook');> - Newsvine <javascript:articleShare('newsvine');> - Permalink <javascript:articleShare('permalink');> A parochial school education for two daughters is another fruit of Mr. Mohan's migration. Mrs. Mohan says the girls still plead for their father's return. "They want Papa and they also want money," she said. "They cannot have both." Photo: Tyler Hicks/The New York Times - Sign In to E-Mail or Save This<http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/30/world/asia/20070902MIGRATE_index.html> - Share<http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/30/world/asia/20070902MIGRATE_7.html#> - Digg <javascript:articleShare('digg');> - Facebook <javascript:articleShare('facebook');> - Newsvine <javascript:articleShare('newsvine');> - Permalink <javascript:articleShare('permalink');> The Communist Party came to power in Kerala in 1957 and has ruled on and off since then. The state transferred land from the rich to the poor, set a minimum wage and invested heavily in health care and education. It also gained a reputation as a place hostile to business, with heavy regulation, militant unions and frequent strikes. Photo: Tyler Hicks/The New York Times - Sign In to E-Mail or Save This<http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/30/world/asia/20070902MIGRATE_index.html> - Share<http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/30/world/asia/20070902MIGRATE_8.html#> - Digg <javascript:articleShare('digg');> - Facebook <javascript:articleShare('facebook');> - Newsvine <javascript:articleShare('newsvine');> - Permalink <javascript:articleShare('permalink');> The Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences. Kerala's life expectancy is nearly 74 years - 11 years longer than the Indian average and approaching the American average of 77 years. Kerala's state government spends 46 percent more on health care than the average Indian state. Photo: Tyler Hicks/The New York Times - Sign In to E-Mail or Save This<http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/30/world/asia/20070902MIGRATE_index.html> - Share<http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/30/world/asia/20070902MIGRATE_9.html#> - Digg <javascript:articleShare('digg');> - Facebook <javascript:articleShare('facebook');> - Newsvine <javascript:articleShare('newsvine');> - Permalink <javascript:articleShare('permalink');> A church in Beemapally, a small town close to the capital of Kerala. Photo: Tyler Hicks/The New York Times - Sign In to E-Mail or Save This<http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/30/world/asia/20070902MIGRATE_index.html> - Share<http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/30/world/asia/20070902MIGRATE_10.html#> - Digg <javascript:articleShare('digg');> - Facebook <javascript:articleShare('facebook');> - Newsvine <javascript:articleShare('newsvine');> - Permalink <javascript:articleShare('permalink');> Shirley Justus struggled to raise three daughters by herself while her husband drove trucks in the Muscat and Dubai. Her oldest daughter graduated from high school last year and then wanted to move away from home, to study in either Mumbai or England. Ms. Justus, afraid to be responsible for letting her go, vetoed the idea. Her daughter obeyed with little complaint and then hanged herself. "If my husband was here, she wouldn't have done this," said Ms. Justus, who has made her living room a shrine to her daughter. "He would have solved the problem." Photo: Tyler Hicks/The New York Times - Sign In to E-Mail or Save This<http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/30/world/asia/20070902MIGRATE_index.html> - Share<http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/30/world/asia/20070902MIGRATE_11.html#> - Digg <javascript:articleShare('digg');> - Facebook <javascript:articleShare('facebook');> - Newsvine <javascript:articleShare('newsvine');> - Permalink <javascript:articleShare('permalink');> In the family of James John Pereira, literacy and migration have been intertwined for nearly 100 years, since his father left to work as a valet on a Sri Lankan plantation. His earnings put Mr. Pereira through private school, and Mr. Pereira's 49 years abroad as a clerk did the same for his five children, all of whom earned master's degrees. Photo: Tyler Hicks/The New York Times - Sign In to E-Mail or Save This<http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/30/world/asia/20070902MIGRATE_index.html> - Share<http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/30/world/asia/20070902MIGRATE_12.html#> - Digg <javascript:articleShare('digg');> - Facebook <javascript:articleShare('facebook');> - Newsvine <javascript:articleShare('newsvine');> - Permalink <javascript:articleShare('permalink');> With nearly a quarter of the $5 billion migrants send home each year being spent on education, some Keralites experience a painful cycle: migration buys education, which leads to more migration. To Kerala's admirers, the state's struggles are those endemic to the developing world, while its achievements are unique. 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