‘They treated me like an animal’: how Filipino domestic workers become trapped

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The Guardian

Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Migrants from the Philippines make up a huge percentage of domestic workers around the world. But when their employers are abusive, visa restrictions force them to choose between enduring more suffering or becoming illegal. By Margaret Simons. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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0:59.4	They treated me like an animal.
1:03.0	How Filipino domestic workers became trapped by Margaret Simons. Does she love them?
1:15.0	love them? Mary lifted her face and smiled.
1:20.0	I love them like they are my own," she replied. Mary has cared for these children
1:26.1	since they were born. She has been at every significant school event, sports matches,
1:31.8	award days, graduations.
1:34.4	She takes them to after school classes to doctor's appointments.
1:38.1	She supervises homework and playdates.
1:41.0	It's Mary who hears each evening about what happened that day at school.
1:45.0	But she worries that the family she works for won't need her for long.
1:52.0	Her right to stay in the UK depends on keeping her job with
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