Familiar Strangers is a campaign to both collect and share the stories of low-wage migrant workers in Singapore.
Many of the stories about low-wage migrant workers today are usually about their struggles at work and unsanitary living conditions. There isn’t a platform to take it one step further to understanding their lives, and to realise that they are also friends who are in pursuit of a better life for themselves and their family.
The project team strives to provide this platform for them to tell their own stories, in their own words and other means of expression, such as through photos and videos.They believe that the gap can be bridged through raw first-person narratives. Through these, they hope to give Singaporeans an opportunity to learn more about the lives of low-wage migrant workers.
Stories are currently still being collected on the streets, as well as through individuals and organisations who have had the opportunity to interact with low-wage migrant workers.
But have we ever wondered how the workers would react to these comments when they see them?
Special thanks: HealthServe
Editor’s Note: We would like to sincerely apologise for a mistake in the subtitles of the video, where Mr Xu Yi Wen’s name was spelled incorrectly as Mr Xu Wen.
Posted by Familiar Strangers on Sunday, January 17, 2016
The only thing that separates low-wage migrant workers from anyone else is opportunity — the opportunity to represent themselves. Our migrant worker friends can now take sole authorship of their personal narratives, to stand up and represent themselves through raw depictions of their lives. – Familiar Strangers Team
About Familiar Strangers
Familiar Strangers consists of four final-year students from the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information — Amos Chen, Andrea Lim, Kenji Kwok and Shahrin Izhar.
