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Say, the country/countries you have citizenship in, decided to not want you anymore and threw you to some random "3rd world country", how do you survive?
Submitted 2 hours ago by DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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xylogx@lemmy.world 23 minutes ago
droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Jokes on you my country of citizenship is already a third world country
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 hour ago
They’re sending you to Ohio.
Codpiece@feddit.uk 29 minutes ago
Find an official and see if I can get sent north to Canada.
Pencilnoob@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Just look for a job and make sure you’ve got a visa. Third world countries have a lot more “informal economy” that isn’t taxed or handled with paperwork so it’s possible sometimes to just find a job without paperwork or anything, but that won’t help you get a permanent visa.
Ideally, you get a visa that allows work, show you’re working, and then the visa gets upgraded to a permanent resident visa. This varies a lot from country to country. If you’ve got a job, some countries are pretty happy to have you adding to their local economy and will extend you a visa. If you’ve got a remote job that might go even faster.
Alternatively if you’re not skilled in any way, you apply to a super cheap college and apply for a student visa, that’ll buy you a few years while you’re getting skilled in something that country needs. Studying to become a doctor, lawyer, or STEM goes a long way. One of these probably is in demand there, figure out which one and take a crack at it. Hard, for sure, but a pretty solid way to build something long term. Of course if you don’t know the language that will be harder, but colleges generally have language classes too, so that could be the first classes you take.
There’s also teaching English, it’s generally not too hard to find work as a tutor or English teacher, I saw the other day like there’s only one English teacher for every 500 open positions. So that’s a possibility too.
Just generally try to participate in their economy. Try to make local friends and assimilate. Think about what first generation immigrants do: find a steady job or bust ass studying tech or medicine.
bklyn@piefed.social 1 hour ago
Pray that you didn’t end up in CECOT
FridaySteve@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Spend my dollars on an apartment and a house cleaner, start networking with other folks, get a job. It’s not hard.
protist@mander.xyz 1 hour ago
It’s cute you think you’d still have access to dollars in this scenario
FridaySteve@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
It’s cute that you assume I wouldn’t. OP never said anything about that.
cabbage@piefed.social 52 minutes ago
I wonder what people in this thread think the third world is, and what they imagine living there is like.
It’s not like there’s a clear answer. I guess technically Sweden is a third world county, while North Korea is second world. And America is as first world as it gets, and it’s a fucking shithole.
FridaySteve@lemmy.world 47 minutes ago
The phrase has been corrupted from its cold war origins to mean (putting it politely) the “developing world”. Whereas I’ve moved countries seven times, I’ve seen a lot of places, and I can say from experience that outside of specific prejudicial circumstances (being a woman in Iran, Uyghur Muslim in China, being anyone in North Korea, for example) there are paths to success everywhere.
Rudee@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
Piggybacking off this, what is the legality of revoking a person’s sole citizenship?
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 hour ago
I mean it depends on the country. Are Vietnam, Cambodia or Thailand third world? Central Asia? I’m surviving better here than I ever did in America. South America or mexico would be fine too.
IDK if I could handle India or Africa or central America or Afghanistan or Pakistan.
tiredofsametab@fedia.io 6 minutes ago
I have two citizenships and permanent residency in a third country, so that seems unlikely. In the spirit of the question, though, immediately start drilling language and learning customs. If they have IT jobs, particularly in English, I'm already ready to work. I also have my own small farm so experience there as well. I've worked in many industries in my life, so I can jump into many things.
The kicker is probably the legal side and then finding housing which just requires doing whatever is needed. I assume I have whatever assets I had, my phone, etc.