This resident underclass of domestic servants is socially invisible in Hong Kong, and their position there is especially precarious. They come primarily from Indonesia and the Philippines. Like Singapore, Hong Kong depends heavily on this inexhaustible pool of cheap labor.
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Nearly all these domestic workers are women. During the lockdown, they were told to stay home on their days off, which meant being confined to a tiny room. Many were fired (meaning, effectively deported) at the start of the pandemic.https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3052799/coronavirus-fuels-rise-hong-kong-domestic-worker-sackings …
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The struggle for democracy and freedom in Hong Kong has not expanded in any meaningful way to include this underclass of foreign labor. A summer protest to express solidarity with a domestic worker citizen journalist deported for her writing was sparsely attended. It's a problem.
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