Human Rights
Marooned by Morakot: Indigenous Taiwanese typhoon survivors long to return homeClimate Home News Dec 17 2021The Paiwan community left their typhoon-hit village in 2009 for a new town, where they are alienated from their heritageRead Article
Taiwan’s Elder Care Industry Faces Embattled Future - Taiwan Business TOPICSTaiwan Business TOPICS Sep 9 2021Insufficient government budget for senior care and a system that overworks and underpays foreign caregivers do not bode well for Taiwan’s elderly as theirRead Article
The Miaoli Lockdown and Taiwan’s Migrant Worker Apartheid - The News Lens International EditionThe News Lens International Edition Jun 10 2021The Miaoli lockdown is an extension of what the system of laws pertaining to Taiwan’s migrant workforce has always been — a set of rules which amount to legalized oppression and legislatively-backed racism.Read Article
Equal Rights for Migrant Workers Now - The News Lens International EditionThe News Lens International Edition Oct 14 2020There are 800,000 Southeast Asian migrant workers in Taiwan doing the jobs locals don’t want or aspire to. They deserve equal rights.Read Article
Excerpt of MigranteCommonWealth Magazine Aug 11 2020Rizal looked in all directions: there was only water, the boat, and themselves, no other vessels to be seen on the undulating sea that breathed like a living thing, seething in the encroaching darkness. Li reduced speed to a trawl and emerged scowling, turning on a light above the wheelhouse to illuminate the deck as night descended quickly around them.Read Article
When the One in the Dark Speaks, Will You Listen?CommonWealth Magazine Aug 12 2020Sometimes, the question of whether you could do something is really whether or not you should. I knew I could write a book about the hardships faced by Taiwan’s community of Southeast Asian migrant fisherman, caregivers, and factory workers. I had the material. I’d done the research. I’d put the years in.Read Article
Danger on the high seasTaipei Times Aug 11 2018Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to TaiwanRead Article
Film highlights abuses of migrant fishermenTaipei Times Apr 16 2018Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to TaiwanRead Article
The tragedy of Manila’s rentable ‘apartment tombs’South China Morning Post Aug 27 2017Manila’s rental ‘apartment tombs’ offer a temporary solution to families unable to afford a permanent plot to bury their loved ones. But what happens when the five-year term expires?Read Article
Duterte’s war on drugs creating generation of orphansSouth China Morning Post Nov 16 2016Children in Manila’s poorest neighbourhoods are paying an especially heavy price for the anti-drugs campaign of the Philippine president, which has taken thousands of lives since he came to power. Photographs by Paul RatjeRead Article
Mass graves for unclaimed bodies of Duterte’s drug warAl JazeeraFamilies who cannot afford to pay funeral parlour expenses to claim bodies of relatives watch them buried en masse.Read Article
Death, abuse, exploitation: Taiwan’s migrant worker shameSouth China Morning Post Oct 6 2016An Indonesian fisherman’s body dumped at sea, another returned bloodied and emaciated; a domestic helper sexually abused by five employers - two shocking cases that shine a light on the plight of imported workers on the islandRead Article
Burned by the systemTaipei Times Aug 17 2015Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to TaiwanRead Article
A raw dealTaipei Times Dec 15 2015Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to TaiwanRead Article
Voices of the exploitedTaipei Times Jun 2 2015Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to TaiwanRead Article
Domestic slavery, Maid in TaiwanTaipei TimesBringing Taiwan to the World and the World to TaiwanRead Article
Face the musicTaipei Times Mar 29 2014Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to TaiwanRead Article