They arrive on foreign shores with the security of a job and a salary.
Tomkins does not want to depart these shores with any regrets.
Ultimately, they say, the new technologies could give China an ability to operate hundreds of miles beyond its shores with a freedom it has never before enjoyed.
Surfing is not only unrecognized here, but the concept of Cubans swimming away from protected shores with a flotation device can also leave officials uneasy.
But the European Union, fearful of an invasion of African migrants, has turned itself into a fortress, barring migrant workers and lining its shores with detention camps.
From Monday, though, all that is set to change, as the company brings six of its titles to UK shores, with more to follow in May and June.
Until then, refugees will be able to leave from Turkish shores with relative ease, albeit in lower numbers over the winter.
The irony of it: Zayde, given name Ben Zion, Orthodox Jew with a beard, comes to these shores with his family, and undoes Orthodoxy.
Or was Macao an Asian Las Vegas, luring visitors to its shores with outrageous discounts in hopes they would lose their shirts at the tables?
And "Billy Elliot" arrived on our shores with unusual timeliness, offering the sweet release of escapism alongside a bracing dose of truth telling.
Luckily for Phyllida, who arrived on his tribe's shores with just the clothes on her back and a spoon, the god of the tribe happens to be spoon-shaped, and so she was accorded the respect a proper Englishwoman deserves.
