Tag Archives: Migrant Workers
She’s Helpful at Home
An amazing migrant caretaker who’d helped this family out a whole lot, not just in helping to care for the writer’s husband, but in, many, other ways as well too, translated… Since we had a hired nurse’s aide at home, … Continue reading
Looking Up
The most interesting sights in the cities are still, the people who live and work there! Translated… Standing, below the building of Hong Kong’s legislature, I’d felt like I was, in a dream, dizzy, don’t know if it was because … Continue reading
To Sally
Translated… Sally came to the Yao’s house in 2008, as a nurse’s aide, and worked for six years. Six years, it’s also the period of time when my parents showed the greatest amount of deterioration. Sally used her small-framed body, … Continue reading
The Fertile Land from the Distance, the United Nation of Friends
Translated… I’d lowered my head, and stared at the tips of her fingers which were turning purple, imagining that over the seas, in the distance, how many young girls, had traded in the chances, of playing on the pianos……… Because … Continue reading
Taiwan Became His Home, “the More Assimilated, the Happier”
The thoughts of a migrant worker here on making Taiwan home, from the Front Page Sections, translated… The Social Work Department Professor, Wang yesterday shared on the seminar, that there’s high correlation between the level of happiness and the assimilation … Continue reading
Dodo, from Indonesia, the United Nation of Friends
Translated… Dodo’s hometown is in the Pati District in Middle Java, in his childhood, he’d “crammed” too, it’s just, that the cramming he’d done was quite different than the kind of cramming here… When the “Southeast Asia Mobile Library” drifted … Continue reading
The Story Gold Powder Told Me
The story of a migrant worker, translated… not my picture… Gold Powder smiled and told me a story about her and grandpa. Gold Powder said, that although grandpa is elderly, but he’d still acted like a hyperactive kid. He would … Continue reading
The Moving Love from a Father
The ins and outs of the world here, translated… Awhile ago, I’d taken my wife and daughter, to the town, Huwei, the town, fifteen kilometers from where we lived, to buy a pair of shoes for my youngest. In that … Continue reading
Life, the Obstacle Course 