‘Shelter in place’: Church seeks better lives for Taiwan’s migrant workers

‘Shelter in place’: Church seeks better lives for Taiwan’s migrant workers

Nearly 800,000 “unskilled foreign laborers,” mostly from Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam work in Taiwan.Sacred Heart church in Taichung, Taiwan, a former theater turned into a church with a center for migrants in distress. Courtesy photo.They get to Taiwan through a phalanx of employment brokers, who ensure their hiring — and in exchange take sizable monthly cuts from the workers’ low wages, over contract periods of three years…