For decades, Hong Kong’s unseen army of maids, the near 300,000 Filipinos, Malays and Indonesians who tend the homes of the island’s wealthy families, have been expected to cook, clean, nanny children and eventually leave the island to return to their home countries.
The case has bitterly divided Hong Kong society. Supporters argue that it is time to stop treating maids as second-class citizens, while critics warn that Hong Kong’s already stretched health care and education systems would buckle and snap under the weight of as many as half-a-million immigrants.
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