I'VE just returned to Southeast Asia after staying for six months in the United States. I took a Saudia Airlines flight that had a 10-hour layover in Riyadh. My fellow passengers were mostly overseas Filipino workers, wearing their denim jackets and jeans, bags slung on their shoulders.

I met two other Filipinos who were to fly to London, for leisure, from Riyadh.

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