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Raquel Carvalho

Hong Kong
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Journalist. Stories mostly on social justice, migration, Htrafficking, and security. Focused on Asia (+LatAm). Tips: raquelcarvalhojourno@proton.me

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Investigation: Illegal firings, cancelled visas and lack of healthcare – how domestic workers facing critical illness are left in limbo

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By Raquel Carvalho
| Hong Kong Free Press Verified
Nancy, a Filipino domestic worker in Hong Kong, squints her eyes for the camera as her right arm holds her employers’ younger daughter tight. The toddler beams, legs thrown around her nanny’s hips. “My baby,” Nancy sobs as she scrolls through old pictures with one hand, while dabbing her wrinkled face with a crumpled white tissue with the other. Migrant domestic worker Nancy says she lost her job after having a heart attack. Photo: Raquel Carvalho/HKFP.
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Inside Hong Kong’s Cage Homes: The Elderly Residents on the Frontlines of the Heat Crisis

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By Raquel Carvalho
| The Diplomat Magazine Verified
As temperatures soar in the city, elderly people living alone in poorly ventilated homes are among those at greatest risk of worsening health conditions – and even death. Leung Chung Leung, 74, has lived in a cage home in the district of Mong Kok, Hong Kong, for about a decade.
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Inside Hong Kong’s Cage Homes: The Elderly Residents on the Frontlines of the Heat Crisis

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By Raquel Carvalho
| Tribune Content Agency
After climbing three flights of stairs of a building in Hong Kong’s bustling Mong Kok district, where sacks of concrete sit by half-patched walls, we find an open metal gate and a wooden door adorned with red and gold decorations welcoming the Lunar New Year. It is about 8 p.m. and the air is stale, thick with humidity from a bathroom shared by 12 and dust from the building’s ongoing renovation.
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