Europe’s Dirty Money Problem

In September 2018 the world’s largest money laundering scandal was revealed and it was shockingly centred on regulated banks in Europe. Some US$230 billion – yes, billion – was laundered from Russia, Azerbaijan and other dubious sources through Estonia, using Danish...

Spycams and Snapshots Capture Workers’ Lives

Several million Filipinas work as overseas domestic workers and are an important source of remittances for their families back home. They also contribute to the economy in places like Hong Kong by facilitating dual-career households. But in the process, the migrant...

Two Takes on China’s Migrant Workers

Migrant workers have long had a poor image in China. When they started to flood into cities in the 1980s and 1990s to fill factory jobs, they were regarded by both urban residents and official state media as uncivil, disorderly and crime-prone and they were denied...

A City Fuelled by Migrants

“Hong Kong has always been a city of immigrants,” says Professor YC Richard Wong, Chair of Economics and Philip Wong Kennedy Wong Professor in Political Economy, a description that still applies long after revolution and war sent hundreds of thousands of people...