Hong Kong
I represent Hong Kong because it is the city where I first recognized the profound gap between a global crossroads' outward prosperity and the private realities of its marginalized labor force.
I am documenting the emotional and cultural legacy of migrant domestic workers who form the backbone of Hong Kong’s households yet are excluded from the city’s narrative of belonging. I aim to reveal the paradox of their lives: being deeply woven into the intimate life of families while navigating transnational loneliness and systemic invisibility. By recording their stories of sacrifice and resilience, I am performing an act of narrative justice for those history treats as mere economic units.
This story matters because the dignity of over 300,000 workers should not be proven only through tragic disasters but recognized through their daily human presence. Restoring their narrative agency is essential to repairing the moral fabric of a cosmopolitan society.
—Paris Wang
Paris Wang
Chapter Leader
Paris Wang is a senior at Harrow International School Hong Kong. She has had a variety of experience within journalism and humanities through high school, including reporting for The Standard, research into diaspora history, political memory, and gender ideals. She holds a passion for oral history and storytelling because it offers opportunities to preserve and analyse both historical and contemporary human experiences. In her free time, she likes to travel.
The Hong Kong chapter documents oral histories of the city’s migrant domestic workers, preserving their stories of labour, sacrifice and belonging for students, researchers and advocates alike interested in migration and social justice.