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The Chinese city has turned to a new source to solve a shortage of foreign domestic workers, but a past deal with Myanmar and an ill-fated scheme in Singapore suggest there will be plenty of problems to iron out<\/p>\n

There are 330,000 foreign domestic workers – chiefly from Indonesia and the Philippines- already working in Hong Kong. Photo:AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hong Kong may<\/span> hope to ease its shortage of domestic workers by welcoming its first batch of maids from Cambodia later this year, but if history is anything to go by the scheme could end up providing more problems than solutions.<\/p>\n

Under a new five-year scheme, the first trial group of 1,000 Cambodian workers will arrive in Hong Kong this autumn<\/a>, adding to the 330,000 foreign domestic workers<\/a> \u2013 chiefly from Indonesia and the Philippines \u2013 who already work in the city.<\/p>\n

But those five years could well prove tumultuous, worker advocates warn, as both Hong Kong and Cambodia have chequered histories when it comes to the exploitation of such workers.<\/p>\n

The success of the deal, they say, will hinge on both sides\u2019 ability to stamp out corrupt practices among recruiters, improve worker training \u2013 and on whether the Cambodian government can muster the political willpower to act on cases of abuse.<\/p>\n

Hong Kong\u2019s Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Gregory So Kam-leung, left, and Cambodia\u2019s Minister of Labour and Vocational and Training H.E. Ith Sam Heng signed the domestic helper deal earlier this week. Photo: K. Y. Cheng<\/span><\/p>\n

Cases of abuse of foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong surface periodically \u2013 in part an almost inevitable consequence of the large numbers working in the city \u2013 and often receive widespread media coverage.<\/p>\n

Indonesian worker Erwiana Sulistyaningsih<\/a> became a cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre when in January 2014 she accused her Hong Kong employer of subjecting her to six months of physical abuse, with photographs of her injuries spreading through social media and prompting widespread outrage. So well-known did her case become that Time<\/em> magazine included her on its list of 100 most powerful people that year.<\/p>\n

But her case is far from unique; cases of helpers falling to their deaths while cleaning flat windows are not unheard of, while workers frequently complain of loan-sharking and exploitation by employment agencies.<\/p>\n

One bad omen for the deal may be the arrangement between Hong Kong and Myanmar in early 2014 that envisaged bringing in 2,000 maids in the first year. Six months after their arrival, about one in five of the first 90 helpers had already returned home as they could not adjust to life in the city.<\/p>\n

The Myanmar government later banned its women from working as maids in Singapore or Hong Kong because of concerns over abuse and exploitation.<\/p>\n

In recent months, the Hong Kong government has moved to clamp down on exploitative practices, in part by introducing a code of practice for employment agencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government\u2019s code of practice and more staff to monitor the actions of employment agencies were good steps, but in reality, I don\u2019t think it goes far enough to make the Hong Kong [employment] agencies understand that they have an ongoing duty to ensure the safety of workers,\u201d said Jade Anderson, anti-human trafficking coordinator at the Hong Kong Justice Centre.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd there is certainly anecdotal evidence of increased vulnerability to exploitation and trafficking for workers coming to Hong Kong without proper support networks or communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Abuses have been very poorly addressed [by Cambodia] with a system that is set for exploitation<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Part of the deal between Hong Kong and Cambodia requires the helpers to undergo three months of cooking and health care training prior to their arrival, but Anderson said this was not enough to prevent exploitation and that more education was needed on workers\u2019 legal rights.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven after training, their language skills are still not sufficient enough to understand the reams of documentation that agencies place in front of them and ask them to sign. This is one area where there is tremendous scope for exploitation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The workers will arrive this autumn from a country where the minimum wage is just US$153 per month, female education levels are low and corruption and exploitation commonplace.<\/p>\n

Members of the Asian Migrants Coordinating Body at a march to demand increased salaries for domestic workers in Hong Kong. Photo: K. Y. Cheng<\/span><\/p>\n

Government data shows just 65 per cent of Cambodian girls in poor rural areas transition from primary to secondary school and by the time they reach senior years, at least 30 per cent have dropped out. But opposition lawmaker and women\u2019s rights campaigner, Mu Sochua, from the Cambodia National Rescue Party, says the dropout rate could be far higher, with only 14 per cent of female students in rural areas completing high school. As a result, many female Cambodian workers are desperate for higher paying jobs but are largely ill equipped for what the work will entail.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn estimated two million youth are unskilled labourers in neighbouring countries. This will not improve without a vision, a real investment in the national budget and political will,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbuses have been very poorly addressed [by Cambodia] with a system that is set for exploitation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The treatment of Cambodian migrant workers overseas, in such countries as Malaysia and Singapore, has long been a matter of controversy. In 2011, Cambodia banned workers from travelling to Malaysia after repeated cases of abuse surfaced. That decision had an undesired effect \u2013 causing workers to go underground, leaving participants even more exposed to exploitation. The ban was lifted in 2015.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on Cambodia\u2019s reaction to the abuse in Malaysia, Roiki Harima, managing director of the Mekong Migration Network, said embassies needed to play a bigger role in investigating mistreatment.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo date, the embassies and consulates have not been responsive and that is something we want to see improved. Rather than bans, countries such as Cambodia need more political willpower to take concrete steps to improve the situation in receiving nations,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Mu Sochua, centre, a Cambodian opposition lawmaker, says corruption in the country\u2019s own domestic worker recruitment agencies is a major hurdle to establishing a new deal. Photo: AFP<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2013, Cambodia signed up to an ill-fated pilot scheme to provide Singapore with migrant workers. Alex Au Waipang, of the Singapore-based Transient Workers Count Too, said many Cambodian workers had lacked the support, education and maturity to work overseas. \u201cBeing the first in a pioneering batch, there was no community to really help them adjust,\u201d he said, adding that the NGOs were equally unprepared. \u201cCompared to Indonesian or Filipino workers … many Cambodians just wanted to go home. They were not ready to be domestic helpers. They were homesick.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like the Hong Kong-Cambodia deal, training was promised as part of the Singapore pilot scheme. But Au said the training was either non-existent or ineffective as many Cambodian workers were familiar with neither modern household amenities nor basic English. \u201cSo what were they trained for, we wonder?\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to cultural differences, Au, Sochua and Harima cited falsified documents and qualifications, underage workers, employment agency corruption and the unofficial licensing of rural recruitment agents in Cambodia as ongoing problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cCompounding the issues was that the girls were underage, not even adults and potentially not of the education level required,\u201d Au said of the Singapore experience. \u201cAbout half the cases we saw were like that. There were so many things wrong, I hardly know where to begin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Au said Hong Kong needed to inspect the situation in Cambodia as well as recruitment and training agencies in both countries. But above all, it needed to establish a community for the workers. \u201cIf we could do it all over again, I would first bring in the Cambodian men,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTake the Burmese for example. In Singapore, the men were brought in first, as construction workers, who quickly formed a community because they were out and about, did not live with family and tended to start businesses like restaurants [and visited temples]. Then, all of a sudden, we had access to translators and when the domestic workers began to arrive \u2013 sure there was some homesickness \u2013 that community took root much faster.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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By: Edouard Morton, South China Morning<\/div>\n
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Published on: 29 April 2017<\/div>\n
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