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Cities Made of Water
December 5, 2017
Two Badjao girls walk down a littered beach in Wawa, Batangas. Disparagingly labelled as "sea gypsies", Badjao follow the movements of the sea rather than the borders of the land, never quite belonging to the countries in which they live. These girls' families fled from the fighting in Mindanao, working and begging their way north across the Philippine archipelago to finally settle here in Wawa, a mixed community of Badjao and Tagalog families. Here, they were Christianised and now want to be known as "Goodjao," to escape the prejudice and marginalization that their ethnicity has historically experienced in Southeast Asia. With the Philippines the third most vulnerable country to climate change, fisherfolk, who are the least responsible for causing the worsening climate crisis, are also the population most vulnerable to its disastrous consequences such as rising sea levels, storm surges, and coastline erosion.
Hannah Reyes Morales
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