‘Shelter in place’: Church seeks better lives for Taiwan’s migrant workers

"If someone needs shelter, he should be welcomed right away"

Nearly 800,000 “unskilled foreign laborers,” mostly from Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam work in Taiwan.

Sacred Heart church in Taichung, Taiwan, a former theater turned into a church with a center for migrants in distress. Courtesy photo.

They get to Taiwan through a phalanx of employment brokers, who ensure their hiring — and in exchan…