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I'm back in Toronto. Travelling is one of those experiences that affect you in many different ways. You're suddently thrown out of your context, trying to make a living in a place where the rules are different.

While in Amsterdam, I had the oppotunity to visit the exhibition World Press Photo. Although the focus were a series documenting the horrors of war, on the side there was a small group of photos about those who have migrated to Amsterdam and have brought their culture to this multi-ethnical city.

Modern society is pushing humans to the limit by making migration almost a casual decision. Concentration of jobs in the big cities, privatization of farm activity by a few big companies, faster transport, globalization. These are just a few of the reasons the face of society is changing forever.

For a small taste of the stories behind, no one better than Sebastiao Salgado.

This is nothing else but our inheritance from the industrial revolution. Does it make sense to continue concentrating all people in the cities when companies are outsourcing their manufacture to other countries? or when we have the communication mechanisms to work remotely? or when the current transport technologies would allow us to travel 200 km in less than an hour? I'm hoping that the convergence of these factors will return some hope to those doing long commutes every day.