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Shiku Mwangi
What Diaspora Money Should Fund Back Home and What It Should Never Touch
I have written before about the month I could not send money home. What I did not say is that the guilt of that month made me audit everything — eleven years of receipts, promises, and "quick emergencies." This is wha…
A Patient Rejected My Accent. A Week Later Another Asked Where I Trained
The call light for Room 12 came on twenty minutes into my shift. I walked in smiling the way you do, and the woman in the bed looked at my badge, then at my face, and said, "Is there somebody else who can take care of…
The Remittance Guilt: What Happens When You Can't Send Money Home This Month
It starts on a Tuesday. You are sitting in your car in the parking lot of your workplace in Dallas or Minneapolis or Baltimore, and you are doing math on your phone calculator. Rent is due on the first. The car insura…