evolution of domestic workers in Singapore dates back to the mui tsai‚ migrant girls from China in the early 1890s who were the virtual slaves of the rich families. They worked from dawn to dusk and into the wee hours of the morning. However‚ the number of foreign domestic workers started to grow only in the 1970s‚ a result perhaps of the economic boom then‚ and the desire for more leisure. The number continued to rise rapidly. In 2005‚ there were more than 140‚000 foreign domestic workers in Singapore.(Chew
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History Assignment- Extended Response Describe the experiences of the Italian migrants from their arrival after WW2‚ through to the multicultural period in the 1970s The experiences of the Italian Migrants have changed from the time of their arrival after WW2 to the present day. The Italian migrants were forced to leave Italy after the war due to the fact that many of them were displaced as a result of sheer destruction that some areas had undergone. What was once a home‚ was now no more than
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Following Sorrita’s illustration on IDWs’ enjoying nightlife in Hong Kong‚ Susanti provides similar observation. Some IDWs‚ indeed‚ are the regular pubs visitors. Susanti gives example of an IDWs named Lasmini who engages in this particular life style simply because of her circle. Two consecutive days‚ she went with Made and friends visiting discotheque days and nights. She went back to consume alcoholic drink and ecstasy. “I have no place to sleep. Therefore‚ every time I left discotheque in the
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Afro-American Migrants in “Promised Land”: From Field to Factory Dr. Poonam Punia Assistant Professor in English JCD Memorial P.G College‚ Sirsa (Haryana) Email: poonamdsingh7@gmail.com Abstract The United States has always been a country of people on the move: up and down the eastern seaboard‚ westward toward the Pacific‚ from countryside to city and from East and Midwest into the Sunbelt. Americans have a long history of dragging up
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Migrant mother‚ Nipomo‚ California 1936 is a great picture captured by Dorothea Lange. The picture in black & white and the woman about like thirty years old with her three children. Black & white is showing countless artwork and showing past phase. The woman with her three children; the two children with both arms by turned their face showing they are starved. Other children on her lap it is a baby and he/she do not know about anything. The mother looks tense and waiting for somebody such as happiness
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Great Depression. The desperation and misery felt by the country during the 1920s and 1930s is nearly impossible to grasp by today’s society‚ yet when looking at photographs such as “Migrant Mother” we are given a glimpse of the hardships that plagued the nation. The hopeless‚ weathered gaze of the woman in “Migrant Mother” served as a representation of the hopelessness felt by so many suffering mothers and families during the Great Depression. This hopelessness
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A destitute mother glances to the side as her two children cling to her shoulders. The photograph taken by Dorothea Lange of the Migrant Mother exists as one of the most iconic images from the years of the Great Depression. But it raises the question of what makes the photo remarkably famous. Without planning for it at the time‚ Lange successfully presented to the world the hardships of the Great Depression and the immense impact it created on people and their lives’. Perhaps it holds noticeable
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Context: This unit is selected from the self-paced e-learning package in Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP). AMEP provides 510 hours of free English tuition to newly arrived migrants and refugees while self-paced e-learning use online package to support or supplement students learning on an independent basis. Learners are adults‚ age above 18‚ from various countries with different language and culture background‚ learning through e-learning package to improve their English levels and to settle
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at times sexual too‚ by employer or household members of employer against a person hired as a domestic help. Malaysia is one of wealthiest countries in South East Asia and therefore acts as magnet for migrants fleeing here to work. In Malaysia‚ majority of the domestic workers are full time workers and most of them come from neighbouring poor countries. There are various factors that lead to maid abuse in Malaysia. The unfortunate thing is that maid abuse does not only cause both mental and physical
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Population and Nationality of FDHs FDHs are one major group of migrant workers in Hong Kong. According to the Immigration Department (ID)‚ as of September 2012‚ the total FDHs population is 311‚455. Most of the Workers are come from Philippine and Indonesia‚ 152‚842 Filipinos workers‚ and 150‚375 Indonesian workers in Hong Kong. They are accounted for half of the total FDHs’ population. Moreover‚ there are 3‚077 Thais and 4‚161 workers of other nationalities. Some 90% of FDHs are female. Compared
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