Tag: Xyza Bacani

When Xyza Bacani first tried photographing migrant workers at a Singapore shelter for women who had fled abusive employers, the man in charge was not interested. He told her of previous experiences where journalists stayed barely long enough to get the photo, and that they did not really care about the women.

the service workers Xyza Bacani has trained her camera on are worse off than even day laborers. Lured or coerced into leaving their countries for jobs in New York, they become trapped, forced to work off their travel expenses and room and board, stripped of their documents, denied time off, isolated by language barriers, paid a pittance or nothing at all, even beaten