Hsiao-Hung Pai is the author of Ciao Ousmane: The Hidden Exploitation of Italy’s Migrant Workers (Hurst, January 2021), a journalist and writer, whose website is here. Her previous books include 'Angry White People: Coming Face-to-face with the British Far-right' (Zed Books / University of Chicago Press, 2016), 'Chinese Whispers' (Penguin, 2008) which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2009; 'Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants' (Verso, 2012); and 'Invisible: Britain's Migrant Sex Workers' (Saqi, 2013). Hsiao-Hung Pai's work appears in The Guardian, where she reported on the Morecambe cockle-picking tragedy. Her undercover investigation on undocumented Chinese migrants was the basis for Nick Broomfield’s acclaimed film 'Ghosts'.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What is offensive is these governments’ housing arrangements for asylum seekers
Brexit or not, Britain has a lot in common with the continent in terms of hostility to ‘outsiders’
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Italy’s all too revealing call for regularising migrant labour
Regularisation should be based on migrant workers’ interests and their need for basic rights.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Moussa's story: migrant workers in Italy under lockdown
Unlike Portugal, there is no indication from the Italian authorities that ensuring access to basic care and support...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?There should be no hierarchy of rights for displaced children
“It is appalling hypocrisy for the authorities to speak of protecting children whilst denying them rights to family...
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Published in: Home“People will rise up”: Uyghur exile foresees end of China’s ruthless rule
Rahima Mahmut cannot go home to Xinjiang: executions, re-education camps and everyday racism are the norm in China’s...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Salvini and the racist immigration policy of Italy’s new government is giving a green light to racial violence
Soumaila Sacko was a USB trade union activist. His union had helped represent thousands of migrants working in...