China news agency, Guangzhou, March 24 - Title: "Xinjiang migrant workers in mainland Survey" study author: "I hope to sound for the home people!"
China News Agency reporter Guo Jun
On March 23, the Institute of Communication and Frontier Governance of Jinan University issued "Forced Labor" or "Pursue a Better Life?"
——Investigation Report on Xinjiang Workers’ Work in the Mainland".
One of the authors of the report and a special researcher of the Institute of Communication and Frontier Governance of Jinan University, Dr. Nirobar Alti, stated in an interview with a reporter from China News Agency that some countries have used the so-called “forced labor” as an excuse to hire ethnic minorities in Xinjiang. The sanctions imposed on workers’ enterprises are actually damaging the rights of people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang to work in the name of human rights.
As a Xinjiang native, she hopes that through this objective and neutral report, she can present to the outside world the real situation of Xinjiang minority workers working in the Mainland and help people in her hometown speak up.
The reporter learned that the two authors of the research report "Investigation of Xinjiang Workers’ Work in the Mainland", Dr. Nirobar Alti and Dr. Chen Ning, are both from Xinjiang. The former is Uyghur, and the latter majors in both undergraduate and master’s levels. Uyghur, proficient in Uyghur.
Through a large number of in-depth and detailed interviews and on-site visits in this investigation, the two found that there is no “re-education” and “compulsion” proposed by the Australian Institute of Strategic Policy in any aspect of the employment of enterprises in mainland enterprises of Xinjiang ethnic minorities. Issues such as “labor” and “surveillance”.
Nirobar Alti pointed out that the "Survey of Xinjiang Workers’ Work in the Mainland" research report is all based on first-hand survey data. “We interviewed 70 Xinjiang minority employees from 5 enterprises in Guangdong, one workshop and one workshop. Observe their work, eat with them in the staff canteen, or go shopping together."
She told reporters that during the interview, the interviewees were very angry and worried that their normal employment practices in mainland enterprises were slandered as "forced labor."
A female minority worker in her 40s said angrily to Nirobar Alti: "We rely on our own hands to work. The state and government have given us such a good opportunity, but they have been slandered by foreign countries as'forced labor'. , This is moving the jobs we get through labor."
"As ordinary workers, they want to tell the outside world what their work and life are like. They are not'forced labor', they just pursue a better life through labor," said Nirobar Alti.
During the investigation, many interviewees left a deep impression on the author.
"A little Kirgiz girl saved 40,000 RMB through one year's hard work and brought her parents to Guangzhou to live." Chen Ning told reporters that the little Kirgiz girl was satisfied with her salary.
"In another company, a little Uyghur girl who was particularly eager to learn showed me a small note in her pocket, which was full of Uyghur, Chinese and English. She said that after working in Guangzhou, she felt that she had studied well. The national language is very important. She said she should also learn English and technology well." Chen Ning said that this little girl came to this company for two years and learned a lot of new things with technical content in her work. The progress was very big, not Zheng Guoen. The slanderous "working in low-end work".
“Because we are all from Xinjiang, we communicated in the interviewee’s native language during the interview, which quickly narrowed the distance between us and the interviewee.” Chen Ning said, “our interviews are not formal. They Shared with us many details of work and life."
The reporter learned that the report used first-hand research data to answer questions such as the reasons for Xinjiang ethnic minority people to work in inland enterprises, the daily life of workers, the significance of migrant workers in Xinjiang to ethnic minority workers in Xinjiang, and Xinjiang workers’ planning. Million words.
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