Helpless in Hong Kong: low-income new arrivals from mainland China struggle with job losses, lack of support during Covid-19

Housewife Guo dreams of better days for her family as she comes to terms with all the struggles that make up her life in Hong Kong.The 40-year-old mother of two from China’s eastern Jiangxi province arrived in 2017 to reunite with her husband, a Hongkonger she married in 2011.But he was felled by a devastating stroke soon after and, now 52 and paralysed, is in a care home. For the past three years, Guo has been in Hong Kong caring for him as well as their seven-year-old son, while their younger…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3103034/helpless-hong-kong-low-income-new-arrivals-mainland-china