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Belonging is hard when gaining citizenship is so expensive. The state has just become a regulator of the market
I had scarcely closed the door of the Uber that saved me from getting drenched in the sleety Melbourne rain when the driver asked, “Are you a professor?”
“Well, yes,” I replied. But the question took me by surprise, most drivers barely notice their passengers. It wasn’t a bad guess; I was outside a university. “Are you a student?” I asked the young driver.
