Filipinos in Hong Kong were promised a new life in Poland. It never came
Al Jazeera
Two-part Al Jazeera investigation reveals claims of deception by recruiters working across multiple countries.
This is the second article in a two-part series about the alleged exploitation of Filipino migrant workers.
Hong Kong, China – It only took a few minutes of searching online for Divina*, a domestic worker in Hong Kong, to find a recruiter offering the tempting opportunity to work in Poland.
Before long, Divina found herself attending a two-hour orientation session on the 17th floor of a building in the city’s bustling Mong Kok district.
There, she listened as agents listed opportunities in workplaces ranging from hotels to a chicken processing plant and a car parts factory.
“So you would really be convinced that [they] had many contacts in Poland,” she told Al Jazeera.
