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Taiwan’s Exploited Domestic Helpers

Often overworked, underpaid, abused

Our Correspondent
Nov 16, 2021
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Not long ago, I met an Indonesian domestic helper currently working in Taiwan who had worked previously in Singapore, living on the 12th floor of an apartment building in the employ of an elderly Chinese woman. Another Javanese caregiver worked in the same building for a family on the fourth floor and was literally starving over her employer’s refusal t…

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