Taiwan Readies for Indian Workers Amid Anti-Migrant Concerns

Labor-short island joins other countries facing backlash

By: Jens Kastner

Dogged by labor shortages and a plummeting birthrate, Taiwan recently has agreed to open its doors to up to reportedly 100,000 Indian workers despite xenophobic outbursts across social media platforms for what the islanders call “3K jobs (K stands for 哭, part of a range of words describing miser)” – dangerous, hard, and dirty. In doing s…