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Raquel Amador
Raquel Amador
Raquel Amador is a Hong Kong-based legal researcher specializing in refugee and migrants’ rights. She is working on a three-year project researching immigration detention and vulnerable migrants at the Faculty of Law in the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Serious gaps in anti-trafficking policy let crime happen in plain sight, and treating victims as criminals leaves them reluctant to come forward. The good news is that focused, achievable reform can improve the situation and is possible within existing legal frameworks.

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Since 2016, refugees have been scapegoated and detained to suit the political platforms of certain lawmakers. Rhetoric with no basis in data translates into very real consequences for vulnerable migrants in our city, and it is refugees who pay the price.

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