Ramaswami: In neo-liberal societies, which, evidently, are falling apart as we witness Covid-19 draw closer with each passing day, the rights of citizens is emerging as the biggest joke. While several of the ‘expats’ would never be in India to cast their votes during elections, the poor migrants would always do so. Looking from the perspective of vote banks, the blue-collar trans-regional migrants are more stable than their white-collar counterparts. Despite that, the Prime Minister chose to stand by one and abandon the other. He chose international PR over a stable vote bank. While both are migrants—they are hardly the same. Interestingly, now the Kerala government is calling the poor migrants as guest workers and organising food and shelter for them. Will the ‘expats’ appreciate this synonymity?