In Taiwan, migrants flee the workplace for life in Peripher Migration News

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Taichung City, Taiwan – Bernard maintains a low profile.

The migrant worker, 45-year-old Philip, which has started working on the streets of Taiwan, often checks the face mask to make sure the appearance of the appearance is hidden.

Often talking to hide the emphasis with a whisper often.

He often rejects invitations to social events of his compatriots, and be able to inform the government of the “Judah”.

Hiring for one of the many electronics factories in Taiwan, Bernard came to the island legally in 2016.

However, since June 2024, he was among the growing population of Taiwan’s unscientific workers. The broker is generally guaranteed by the special employment agent, which is designated in general.

Bernard’s broker tried to convince him to confiscate his passport, and then to persuade and monitor his employer.

He rejected every twice, said, causing a rift between them.

“When they talked to you (brokers) only payments or talking to you, Bernard said to Al Cazeera.

Brokers in Taiwan have a significant impact on customers’ salaries and have a significant impact on the conditions and business prospects and insult their attitudes.

When the Bernard’s contract ended in 2022, he joined him a blacklist among other employers.

In the Philippines, the daughter is deducted to support his daughter’s education, Bernard’s broker decided to throw the visa on a visa to operate single construction work.

He said: “It feels like a bird in a cage.”

In the society, Bernard did not even say the word “undocumented” in any language, just fled with his hands.

Taiwan’s undocumented labor force is rapidly.

According to the Ministry of Labor, in January this year, in January, the number of migrants, which reached 90,000 January 90,000, has doubled.

Despite the fact that Taiwan’s image is seen as a rare liberal democracy of the region, the number of southeast Asian migrant workers live in the threat of permanent deportation and without access to social services.

Taiwan was institutionalized in 1992 with the proposal to adjust the brokerage system, labor recruitment.

Brokers affect almost every aspect of the employee’s life, where they live, and how their work agreements are included in the terms and even public services.

Migrant Rights Defenders say this control level of this control level is accurate to escape workplaces.

According to official data, the broker is related to the broker in a third of all complaints to the Ministry of Labor.

From January 2025, Vietnam, 57,611, in 57,611 and Indonesians, and 2750, the Indonesians were the largest share of undocuments.

Sevinj Tajonera, who managed a Catholic priest, which manages Ugnayan “UGNayan” center in Taichung City, said the Taiwanese government was laux.

“The system allows brokers to be used for the disadvantage of migrants,” Taconera said.

“In the meantime, employers play innocent.”

Brokers usually collect payments for most of the migrants a monthly service fee of $ 50 – $ 60, as well as for majority documents to work in business transfers, content, and Taiwan.

In some cases, age limits for certain work.

Tajonera said that many undocumented employees can actually earn more without a broker, but then you lose all social protection and medical protection. Not they don’t want to run away. They have the situation, they can’t get further. “

‘Ashamed and stupid’

The Ministry of Labor of Taiwan said in a statement that the increase in undocumented migrants in the deportation of pandemic.

This increasing migrant works, including minimum wages, including regular inspections of recruitment agencies, including the application of regular employees for high-level employees, and reducing the new suspension mechanism for high-level employees, and reducing the new suspension mechanism for high-level employees and reduces the wages agency fees,

“Industrial migrant workers provide information on the risks and results of legal requirements for the legal requirements of the ministry, to increase awareness of legal requirements for routing and domestic caregivers.”

However, since last year, the Taiwanese government has increased maximum fines of migrants overlapping visas from $ 330-1657.

The director of the People’s Migrant Shelter in Lennon Ying serves the people’s promotion in Ying, and called on the government to increase the government’s “shameless and stupid” fines.

“Instead of escaping this, it will just prevent people from surrendering,” he said. Al said in Jazer.

Wang, especially the lack of a lack of protection for those working in children’s care and fishing areas, is the main reason for a large number of migrants to leave.

According to Taiwan’s Labor Standards Law, why did not expose the $ 944 minimum minimum minimum waeward of the industry.

Wang, in practice, migrants often said that the minus divisions by brokers often received.

“Migrants want only a decent salary,” Wang said. “However, there is an unspoken rule among some brokers to prevent migrant workers who want to help.”

Despite its sympathy, Wang, as the director of an enterprise-funded enterprise, is not allowed to be adopted in migrants from their employers.

The silent on the edge of Taipei, the Harmony home in the Nondescript road, a NGO of unoccupied young mothers and children sleeps.

Women and children remaining in Harmony’s house cannot be deported for humanitarian reasons, the expenditure of state care or medical needs is not forced to shoulder.

Harmony home, which was taken to more than 1,600 children in the last two decades, said he recently had a juvenile nicole Yang, who is unparalleled.

“Last year, we had about 110 new children. By April of this year, there are 140 more than 140,” Yang Al said.

“We take care of 300 people living in the house while working.”

Labor specialist Li-Chuan Liuhuang at the University of National Chung Cheng said that the brokerage system “to make the process of hiring and more transparency”.

Lisya, Taichung’s mountainous territory, hundreds of undocumented Southeast Asians choose peaches, pears and cabbage for local landowners. The presence of migrants fled to the run of the fishing trawler, not only intolerable, but trusts for the product.

Liuhuang said that such migrants want to be allowed to work on farms with the necessary labor protection and the public will not be easy to accept.

“The government will have to make more efforts to such a dialogue,” he said.

Mary, which uses pseudonim, is less than half of the child’s career’s least minimum wage, workers to do illegal work and complaints in various mountain farms.

Mary, sitting next to a cabbage patch, said 46, he said he was always worried around the city police.

However, the rules in Lishan are different, and because the landowners agreed to the fleeing authorities.

“The principal has nothing to do with the police. He always knows when he comes to us not to go out.”

However, there is no guarantee to avoid treatment in the mountains.

After the product, employers sometimes take the payments that threaten everyone who complained with deportation.

“If I complain that the principal does not pay me, I will let you know. Who will help me?” said.