Partnership working as liberation psychology: Forced labor among UK Chinese migrant workers

ABSTRACT

In this article we seek to reflect critically on some recent research we have carried out, in collaboration with a Chinese welfare NGO, on the experience of forced labor among Chinese migrant workers in the UK. We will (a) locate briefly the wider political context of migrant work (both regular and irregular) in the UK; (b) explore how and why the actual research methods and process of the research deviated in practice from those that were planned; and (c) show the extent to which aspects of the research process reflected a liberation psychology perspective.

KEYWORDS:

• Chinese
• forced labor
• liberation psychology
• migrant workers