Airports create awkward scenes for immigrants
arriving at and departing from their homelands. Family members and
friends expect immediate and close interaction at the airport and on the
way leading from and to it. Immigrants, for starters, find themselves
time and again overwhelmed by the human intervention skills they have to
develop. Surprisingly, everyone wants to fair the immigrant goodbye but
cannot come to the airport because the flight lands or takes off at an
unreasonable time of the day. When it is a night flight they have an
important meeting the day after; and when required to come to the
airport during the day--well--they obviously work. Already at this point
immigrants find themselves taking the blame for these unpredictable
inconveniences: "Why didn't you schedule your flight for the weekend?"
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