Abuse and Violence Against Foreign Domestic Workers. A Case from Hong Kong

This paper explores various abuses Foreign Domestic Helpers (FDHs) or migrant domestic workers (MDW) in Hong Kong suffer and the strategies they take up to cope with this abuse. Data were collected from 215 domestic helpers (135 from the Philippines, 30 from Thailand, 41 from Indonesia, and 9 from S...

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Main Author: Ullah Akm Ahsan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2015-12-01
Series:International Journal of Area Studies
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Online Access:http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ijas.2015.10.issue-2/ijas-2015-0010/ijas-2015-0010.xml?format=INT