The most wonderful conversations on migration happen at the Pakistani Arabic Habibi Barber Shop, today was on the Yemeni Student Diaspora in Malaysia, and the surge in the 2015-16 during the heights of the civil war. The pandemic was the nadir. His particular salon owner lost a decade long business during the pandemic. Most of his customers were Yemeni students.

During a previous conversation, he recalled his entrepreneurial journey in Al Buraimi and Deira in the Gulf. He then lived for a year in Pakistan then made his way back to Malaysia to rebuild his life.

Migrants have circuitous lives.