The cost of cotton: no future

Posted on December 8, 2009 by admin | No comments

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports that Uzbek college students are regularly being expelled for refusing to pick cotton.

With that kind of a black mark in their past, any expelled student has little chance of ever completing higher education at home, which leaves the most likely option for survival in a country with mass un- and underemployment that of migrating for seasonal manual labor to Russia.  But in the downturn, thousands of those migrants have been forced to return home…or forced into criminal activity.

Category: 2009 harvest, Uzbek government
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