Hsiuwen Liu

3 weeks ago | restofworld.org | Hsiuwen Liu |Michael Beltran |Gayathri Vaidyanathan

(This is the second of a two-part series on migrant workers in Taiwan’s semiconductor industry. Read the first story here.) The chip worker set off from a small coastal town in the Filipino province of Batangas with one suitcase, a backpack, and high hopes that, though she had to leave her two kids at home, her new job in Taiwan would help them afford a better lifestyle.

1 month ago | restofworld.org | Michael Beltran |Hsiuwen Liu |Gayathri Vaidyanathan

(This is the first of a two-part series on migrant workers in Taiwan’s semiconductor industry. The second story publishes next week.)A group of migrant tech workers from the Philippines sat for lunch at their shelter in the Taiwanese city of Taichung, and thanked God for the food and asked for protection from bad brokers.

1 month ago | business-humanrights.org | Michael Beltran |Hsiuwen Liu

“Taiwan’s chip plants run on migrant workers.