Bøger af Hsiao-Hung Pai

In 2013 Ousmane Diallo, a 26-year-old Senegalese olive harvester, lost his life when a gas canister exploded in a Sicilian field. As an African migrant, he was little mourned. But though they''ve been deliberately forgotten, neither the events of Ousmane''s life nor his tragic death are uncommon. Across Italy today, African workers toil in the fields that make it one of Europe''s largest exporters of fruit and vegetables. Having fled home countries devastated by colonialism and global capitalism, those who survive the journey across the Mediterranean arrive on European shores only to find themselves systematically segregated and exploited. They have been subject to anti-migrant policies over decades, from administrations across the political spectrum. Trapped in a chokehold of subhuman living and working conditions, they are the dehumanised Other, invisible by design--the people hidden behind foods and goods branded ''Made in Italy''. Ciao Ousmane is the story of this subordinated class. Through the lives and stories of Italy''s migrant workers, Hsiao-Hung Pai exposes the open secret of how state and society create ''necessary outcasts''. This is a bitter, frank and moving tale of racial capitalism, against which workers constantly find new ways to organise and fight back.

Border Lives is award-winning journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai''s landmark book in the reporting of Europe''s migrant crisis - and a cry from the heart about an asylum system that is simply not fit for purpose. Whilst the headlines about Europe''s migration crisis have now subsided, they continue to influence the political agenda all over the continent. Pai travels to meet migrants and asylum-seekers who have just been washed up on the shores of Lampedusa or Sicily and have been absorbed into dismal reception camps.

The true story of the causes driving social discontent and racism in Britain today.

In this chilling expose, investigative journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai works undercover as a housekeeper in a brothel and unveils the terrible reality of the British sex trade. Adapted into the Channel Four film documentary 'Sex: My British Job', by Nick Broomfield

Each year, 200 million workers from China's vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China's GDP, but is an unorganized workforce'scattered sand,' in Chinese parlanceand the most marginalized and impoverished group of workers in the country.For two years, the award-winning journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai travelled across China, visiting labourers on Olympic construction sites, in the coal mines and brick kilns of the Yellow River region, and at the factories of the Pearl River Delta. She witnessed the outcome of the 2009 riots in the Muslim province of Xinjiang; saw towns in rubble more than a year after the colossal earthquake in Sichuan; and was reunited with long-lost relatives, estranged since her mother's family fled for Taiwan during the Civil War. Scattered Sand is the result of her travels: a finely wrought portrait of those left behind by China's dramatic social and economic advances.

There are thousands of undocumented Chinese immigrants in Britain. They've travelled here because of desperate poverty, and must keep their heads down and work themselves to the bone. This book reveals a shadowy world where human beings are exploited in ways unimaginable in our civilized twenty-first century.