The context for this video is 380,000 migrant workers in Hong Kong who are required to live in their employer's tiny home and are given nowhere to go on their day off except outdoors. If they lose their job, they have to leave HK within days, however long they've lived there.https://twitter.com/TMclaughlin3/status/1256815214277742592 …
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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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