Erwiana Sulistyaningsih has become the latest symbol of the sad plight of migrant workers all over the world. Pictures of her badly disfigured face and broken, bruised body, has sparked a collective outpouring of shock and anger that has spread beyond Hong Kong, where she was reportedly abused over 8 months by her employer, a stay-at-home mother of two. Not even the subsequent arrest of the employer, even on the basis of a complaint filed by one of her earlier maids, has completely appeased Sulistyaningsih’s supporters. Authorities in Hong Kong should not treat the story of Sulistyaningsih as just another case of an evil employer inflicting harm on her hapless domestic helper, but as an offshoot of policies that have become increasingly anti-migrant over the years.
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