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Taiwan’s chip plants run on migrant workers. Job brokers run their lives

(This is the first of a two-part series on migrant workers in Taiwan’s semiconductor industry. The second story publishes next week.) A group of migrant tech workers from the Philippines sat for lunch at their shelter in the Taiwanese city of Taichung, and thanked God for the food and asked for protection from bad brokers. “Grant us the strength to provide for our families, and a broker who will not take advantage of us,” prayed one of the workers, arms raised over a steaming plate of pork and r...

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