Since the 1970s, foreign domestic workers have been permitted to stay in Hong Kong to address the city's shortage of local, full-time live-in helpers.
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On Oct 21, Hong Kong gets its first screening of Dea (Migrants Built This City), the story of a woman who leaves her home, family and friends in rural Indonesia to work as a foreign domestic worker in Hong Kong. It's a storyline that will resonate with the city's 400,000 migrant workers, most of whom come from the Philippines and.